hunt@spot.colorado.EDU (HUNT LEE CAMERON) (10/15/89)
will scan the blank (unused) portion of my hard disk and look for media defects. I have a Miniscribe 160Mb drive and am using a HardFrame 2000 (with a 1Mb Agnus). After I unzooed (oozed?) a large file yesterday, when I tried to read it, it gave my the dreaded "read/write error" requestor. What I thought was strange about that is that it unzooed fine into the bad portion on the disk, but failed upon reading this portion. I then decied to delete the unzooed file and copy (using AmigaDOS) files onto the same space that the first large unzooed file occupied. Again, I was able to copy a file onto the bad portion of the disk, but was unable to read it (got the same requestor). I looked for a "verify" flag with the AmigaDOS copy command and was unable to find for a flag in the AmigaDOS copy that would perform a verify, but couldn't find one. This seems unfortunate, that one cannot verify a copy under AmigaDOS (if this is actually the case). Anyhow, if someone could direct me to a utility that would scan my disk, sector by sector, for media defects and then deallocate them in the FAT (or whatever AmigaDOS uses) I would greatly appreciate it. Otherwise I'm considering archiving my hard disk and reformatting, which is a real pain. Thanks, (..!ncar!boulder!spot!hunt) --Lee