Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!purdue!decwrl!sgi!markb
From: markb@denali
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Large scale backups
Summary: Byte count to sector conversion
Message-ID: <22021@sgi.SGI.COM>
Date: 15 Sep 88 20:14:58 GMT
References: <232@ptisea.UUCP>
Sender: daemon@sgi.SGI.COM
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc, Mountain View, CA
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In article <232@ptisea.UUCP>, cam@ptisea.UUCP (Cameron Elliott) writes:
> 
> I am attempting to write a utility program to map out bad sectors from
> the manufacturers media map,  the only problem is that I don't know 
> how to go from byte offset to sector number, any clues?

Divide the bye count by the UNfomatted byts/sector.

				 markb