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From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Bad Block?
Message-ID: <5395.AA5395@caleb>
Date: 12 Jan 90 16:25:12 GMT
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[ Dear Mr. Lineeater, please eat the Atari, FM Towns, and 80386 threads. ]

Hello,
       this is a request to anyone listening at CBM.  I have an A2090 (not A)
with two SCSI drives attached.  On the new drive, format locks up on the 812
cylinder (of 820.)  I assume that this means that there is an unknown bad block
somewhere on cylinder 812.  How can I identify which block is bad?  (Note,
the drive had no bad block list on the outside of the drive.)  Even if I find
out which block is bad, is there a way to tell the drive to map out that block.
(I think that SCSI drives are supposed to be able to do this at the drive
level.)

PS.  Could we get a smarter, more robust format command for 1.4?


                                   Thank you,

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                                        Jim Pritchett

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