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From: dw@rocksvax.UUCP (Don Wegeng)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc,net.micro.att
Subject: Re: physical format on pc6300 hard disk
Message-ID: <1811@rocksvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 08:36:38 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 17 08:36:38 1986
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In article <1323@homxb.UUCP> gemini@homxb.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes:
>When a bad sector is
>found, the entire track should be reformatted with "BAD SECTOR ID"
>indicators, so that it will not be used by PC-DOS or any other
>operating system.  

Why the entire track? What evdience do you have that other sectors in
that particular track are bad or going to go bad? Just curious...

/Don
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