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From: cekuo@caen.engin.umich.edu (Chuin E Kuo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: defect-list:what % is consider high
Message-ID: <41ec4af7.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 9 Mar 89 16:49:00 GMT
References: <8000040@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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From article <8000040@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, by jng@m.cs.uiuc.edu:
> 
> I found out that my Miniscribe hard disk has a defect list of 25 entry.
> Is that too high, or is this just normal. (I had a Miniscribe 43 Mb 25 ms HD)

I've heard that the most defects that the disk manufacturers will pass
is 1 per Mbyte.  So your disk is within manufacturers' spec for what
that's worth.

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