Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!astroatc!jojo
From: jojo@astroatc.UUCP (Jon Wesener)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: a plea for bad block handling in the filesystem
Message-ID: <1025@astroatc.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 88 18:50:27 GMT
Organization: Astronautics Technology Cntr, Madison, WI
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	Since the current trend is to put the bad block handling
in the drivers, (probably so the file system doesn't have to know
about bad blocks or how to handle them (such as track slipping,
sector forwarding, or bad block maps like MS-DOG land)) and because
we don't have an euivalent to bad144...  How about a work around.

	How hard would it be to write a program to allocate specific
blocks on the the hard disk to a file?  You could then create a
special file, hidden somewhere appropriately which you could allocate
bad sectors to, and forget about them.  This all depends on how easy
it is to allocate specific disk blocks.

	I sure know I don't want to have to reformat my hard disk just
to lock out a bad sector.

--j
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jon wesener
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