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From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Formatting Disks under 7.0
Message-ID: <53674@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 5 Jun 91 21:13:30 GMT
References: <1991Jun4.164800.16394@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <1991Jun4.164800.16394@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> jms20@po.CWRU.Edu (John M. Sully) writes:
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>Last night I was feeling adventurous, and tried to format a bunch of
>disks that 6.0.7 said were bad.  They formatted (much to my surprise.).
>During formatting, however, the disks were verified twice (the format
>dialog said Re-Varifying format).  Is this some new feature that allows
>7.0 to accept disks that have small problems?  Should I be cautious
>about using disks when this occurs?  Thanks for your help.

This was already answered by someone else on this net. However, I
wanted to point out other resources available for questions like this.
Specifically, Technote #287: "Buddy can you spare a block" deals with
the issue of formatting bad disks.

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