Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ncar!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!PENNDRLN.BITNET!GTHEALL From: GTHEALL@PENNDRLN.BITNET (George A. Theall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro Subject: Hard disk problems? Message-ID: Date: 22 Mar 88 13:04:00 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 17 In last month's IRUG newsletter I read about how Suitable Solutions had discovered that DOS could be improperly marking clusters as "bad" when formatting a disk and not reporting trouble when doing i/o from supposedly "good" sectors. There was even a floppy to programs to detect and fix this bug! While I don't want to doubt Suitable Solutions credibility, I also get worried about doing low-level operations with my hard disk. Has DEC admitted there is a problem? Is there really a problem? If so, who is responsible for any damage caused by this bug? DEC? MicroSoft? George P.S. If there's anyone out there who's not a subscriber to IRUG and wants these 2 programs, send me e-mail. If there's enough demand, I'll UUENCODE them and send them to the list. Just use them at your own risk - I don't want to assume any responsibility for this.