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From: AXDRW%ALASKA.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Don R. Withey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: RE: Bad blocks on hard disks
Message-ID: <5022@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 26 Oct 88 03:41:16 GMT
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A few days ago, I wrote about a bad spot on my hard disk...  Well, I found
out that it was all due to a stupid error on my part.  I had told the drive
that I had more space on it then I really had... (dumb!)  The problem
appeared because I install/repair IBM equipment at work, and assumed that
the drive was basically the same as a ST251 (which it is, but the SCSI
takes some space...)...  If anyone cares, I factored the number of blocks
for a ST277N (It has 126,790 blocks).  The prime factors are: 2 5 31 409.

I told my sytem it had 5 heads, 31 blocks/track, and 818 cylendars.
Thanks for all the replies!!
        Don
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