cdavis@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Charles Davis) (04/24/91)
How can I tell Amiga DOS to mark a track on a floppy disk "allocated"? My friend has some floppies with errors on them and asked me if I knew how to tell DOS to "skip over" the bad tracks. I had an ol' C-64 years back, and remembered (not too fondly, at that :^) getting into a full-screen "disk editor" and manually marking off block as "allocated" in the BAM (Block Allocation Map) on the directory track sector 0 (what was that, track 18 or something like that? Does anyone out there remember that old stuff?) For myself, I would just scrap the disk and use another (what, $.39?), but my friend wants to still be able to use that disk. Would DiskSalv or some such utility "repair" the disk by marking-off the bad section of the disk???? Please forgive my naivity (sp?), but I have only had 1 of my floppies ever go bad on me (knock on wood!), and it was actually on an MSDOS machine at the time (yuk!! :( ) Please respond by e-mail, or a posting, for maybe some others out there would also be interested in this. Charles Michael Davis cdavis@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (No cute signature block! :^)