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Subject: Re: Restoring disk manufacturer's media defect lists?
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Date: 24 Mar 89 00:51:40 GMT
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>Due to circumstances I won't go into, I botched re-formatting some of our
>disks (SMD Fujitsu 2344 and 2361's) and erased the manufacturer's media
>defect list.  I still have the paper copies, and would like to somehow
>tell diag about these bad spots....

The lack of correspondence between the two lists is normal.  The paper
copies are maps made by scanning the drives by analog means, or so I'm
told, and they bear little relationship to what you see when your
controller puts digital data on them.

	Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
	uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu