Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Disks
Message-ID: <1306@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 24 Dec 87 21:01:39 GMT
References: <3186@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <5985@cisunx.UUCP> <2149@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Summary: Formatting bad disks.

Is there any way to format a bad disk (one with bad tracks)? I'd like to
format some of my bad disks with the bad tracks preallocated. They'd be
useful for archiving low-priority stuff, at least. If not, that'd be a
useful addition to 1.3.

Also, is it just my imagination, or does AmigaDOS get more bad disks than
more conventional track/sector DOSes like MS-DOS. I seem to get more errors,
and when I get one I seem to lose more. Seems to me this track-at-a-time
stuff greatly reduces the reliability of the disks.
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-- Peter da Silva  `-_-'  ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter
-- Disclaimer: These U aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.