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From: jim@turbo.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: bad blocks on hard disk
Message-ID: <196@turbo.RAY.COM>
Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 17:44:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: turbo.196
Posted: Tue Sep  1 17:44:47 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 3-Sep-87 02:51:03 EDT
Organization: Raytheon Company, Marlborough MA
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Having just managed to get my hard disk set up and operating 
with the 1.2 release of xt_wini.c, I now find that I get 
non-recoverable errors in the area where I have a couple
of known bad tracks.( Surprise, surprise). Has anyone
tackled the problem of bad track mapping yet? The tracks
should have been marked as bad during low level format
as I entered the manufacturers bad track table at the
format programs prompt. What exactly does the Western Digital
controller do with the bad track information?
Hope someone can help me! Thanks in advance.

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