ggw%wolves@cs.duke.edu (Gregory G. Woodbury) (01/11/91)
I don't think I'm the only one to face this particular problem. Disks go bad occasionally, with a hard drive, you can try reformatting and letting the lowlevel stuff do the lockouts, for a floppy, its hardly worth worrying. However there are several intermediate size hard-shell floppys on the market that provide large capacities and where the formatting software is fussy enough that bad blocks can make the medium unuseable. Is there a simple program or technique or utility set that allows one to scan the medium for bad sectors and make them as used or link them into a file so that they no longer get in the way. I am aware of 1st Aid Kit and some others to recover files with bad sectors, but I didn't see any options to eliminate the bad sectors from future use. If someone can point me to the proper docs for the disk file layout, I might tackle such a job myself, but I'd rather not re-invent the wheel. -- Gregory G. Woodbury @ The Wolves Den UNIX, Durham NC UUCP: ...dukcds!wolves!ggw ...mcnc!wolves!ggw [use the maps!] Domain: ggw@cds.duke.edu ggw%wolves@mcnc.mcnc.org [The line eater is a boojum snark! ] <standard disclaimers apply>