RDBROWN@UALR.BITNET (05/09/90)
In messege <11343@shlump.nac.dec.com>, guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com
(Digital Equipment Corporation, Marlboro, MA) says...
>I'd like to get some utility to find and map out bad spots to save me
>from backing up the rest of the 100MB's on the physical disk to do a
>SCSI level format...
DiskSalv would be one of the utilities you'ld want if you ran across
this sort of problem.
A program I sometimes use to help locate bad disk blocks is called
BFORMAT. It formats disks and performs a check to determine if any
tracks are going to fail, then maps them as being in-use. It is slow
because of the disk-error checking, but it is effective in catching
problems with the media before it's too late.
Robert Brown
RDBROWN@UALR.BITNET