Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!uhnix1!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Disk Errors. AmigaDOS file system.
Message-ID: <1338@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jan 88 01:53:42 GMT
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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I'm starting to get a mite tired of losing files to disk errors when I
ZZ out of Z. I can't see why a bad block should ever produce a file with
errors on a write. If I'm writing the file to disk and the driver gets
a bad block, it should tell that to DOS, and DOS should say "Ah, I'll
mark that block BAD and try another one". 

While I'm on this subject, how about dumping the "one sector per track"
business and going to a conventional track/sector type arrangement? What
you lose in rotational latency you more than gain in reliability. Hell,
you can even read a track at a time ANYWAY. No skin off my nose.
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-- Peter da Silva  `-_-'  ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter
-- Disclaimer: These U aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.