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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: hard disk problem
Message-ID: <1171@botter.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Wed, 6-May-87 17:36:04 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  6 17:36:04 1987
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Keywords: Bad sectors

In article <1569@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU> zimmer@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU (Andrew Zimmerman) writes:
>I am having problems using the hard disk of an IBM XT (genuine) with Minix.
>Does MINIX have a facility to map bad sectors and to mark them unusable?  
>
Unfortunately, no.  It assumes the disk is perfect.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)