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From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- a slipped disk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Format not realizing which blocks are bad?
Message-ID: <14286@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 23 Feb 90 00:06:45 GMT
Organization: U of Ky, Math. Sciences, Lexington KY
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Ok, I'm formatting this new drive on my amiga (B2000 w/2090A) and I've
dutifully PREPed it and typed in this longish list of bad blocks.  Some of
which are on the sticker on the drive, others are on a sheet of paper
included with the drive where the dealer had run some diagnostics ..

Now I'm formatting..  (BTW, a Miniscribe 3053) and the drive is "stumbling"
at all the cylinders where there was bad blocks.

So is format being **dumb** and not realizing looking at the bad block
table I spent all that time typing in?

Are the "offsets" off somehow?

Is format pickier than the manufacturer & dealer formatting tools?


The stumbling has happened both in the slow file system partition and the 
normal-speed file system partition.  (uknowwhatImean)
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