carpent@coltrane.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Todd Carpenter) (06/13/89)
Hey folks! Once again I beg of thee assistance. I have an ST-506 hard disk which has been (ahem) rather abused. Physically. There are now bad spots which are not on the bad sector list. Through liberal use of a varity of programs, (including diskchecker - Thanks!) I can verify that there is definetely a bad *something* at C0730-H6-S16 for instance. So, can one become any more exact so when I re-prep the drive, I can include the cylinder;head;offset in the bad block list? Or, when one *does* provide a list, does the A2090a simply map out the entire sector? In which case I simply divide to get the offset, and shoot for the middle of the sector. Or, finally, is a format supposed to map things out for me? All it does is hang when it hits one of these spots (the light goes out, and the process just sits). Setup: B2000 A2090a AmigaDos 1.3 No, I am *not* concerned with the drive integrity. It is certainly good enough for the uses to which I will put it. And the damage in no way reflects upon the original drive and manufacturer. Thank you, peoples!