Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!convex!killer!dcs!wnp
From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Floppy formatting and using
Message-ID: <311@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jan 89 06:15:36 GMT
References: <435@zinn.MV.COM> <639@cimcor.mn.org> <43@ushiva.UUCP> <439@zinn.MV.COM> <307@dcs.UUCP> <136@cbw1.UUCP>
Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Organization: DCS, Dallas, Texas
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In article <136@cbw1.UUCP> brian@cbw1.UMD.EDU (Brian Cuthie) writes:
>Actually, there is a way for the uport driver and format routine to handle
>bad sectors on floppies.  Instead of having 15 usable sectors per track, you
>only use 14.  This leaves one sector per track for alternate mapping.

But then people would complain about losing 80 KB per floppy, even if
there are no bad sectors on it.

I recently swapped my floppy with one I had in a DOS-only machine, and most
of my floppy problems went away. The drive which was giving me trouble
under UNIX works just fine under DOS, where timing is not as crucial.
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