Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!botter!ark!gijs From: gijs@ark.UUCP (Gijs Mos) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: macintosh file system and disk layout questions. Message-ID: <736@ark.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-May-86 08:45:36 EDT Article-I.D.: ark.736 Posted: Mon May 5 08:45:36 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 8-May-86 07:41:54 EDT References: <429@geowhiz.UUCP> <430@geowhiz.UUCP> <545@Navajo.ARPA> Reply-To: gijs@vu44.UUCP (Mos Gijs) Distribution: net Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam Lines: 22 In article <545@Navajo.ARPA> wert@Navajo.UUCP (Scott Comer) writes: >Plan: edit the sector out of the file that references it, by >diddling the volume allocation block map. Be very carful. Allocate >some other sector, fill it with zeros, and put it in the bad sectors >place. Now, copy all the files to another disk, and reformat that >one. Voila! Everything is ok, except that you lost a sector. Too bad. Help!!. Just copy the disk with a copy program (like Copy II in sector mode) that ignores the bad sectors. Gijs -- Gijs Mos EUNET: gijs@vu44 ({seismo,philabs,decvax}!mcvax!vu44!gijs) BITNET: u00131@hasara5 FIDO: gijs.mos @ net 500, node 11 MAIL: Gijs Mos Vrije Universiteit Biologisch Lab. De Boelelaan 1087 1081 HV Amsterdam PHONE: +31 20 5485705