jenkin@utai.UUCP (Michael Jenkin) (03/14/85)
Recently I saw an add in Antic or Analog for a software bad-block/custom
format program. Does anyone know how a software bad-block generator
would work on an un-altered 810/1050 drive? The obvious way would
be to perform alternating writes with different bit patterns until
a write error occurs, but this seems a little brute-force.
I don't have any documentation on the way the drive handles SIO commands,
but it might be possible to specify very short time-out times to the
device, or to interrupt it during the execution of a command, or maybe
there are undocumented CIO commands for the device? Does anyone
out there have any ideas.
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Michael Jenkin University of Toronto
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