etxsral@tnetxa.ericsson.se (Lars Nilsson, ERICSSON TELECOM, SWEDEN) (10/01/90)
I have a Western Digital ESDI controller: WD1007A-WA2.
Most ESDI drives has the bad-sector info recorded on two
sectors on the disk.
I have understand that this controller can't read the bad-sector
information that is stored on the harddisk.
Does this controller destroy the bad-sector info under low-level
formatting or is the info 'protected' ?
Is there an utility program that can read the bad-sector info and
use it when l-l formatting ?
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ETXSRAL at LMES pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) (10/03/90)
In article <19704@tnetxa.ericsson.se> etxsral@tnetxa.ericsson.se (Lars Nilsson, ERICSSON TELECOM, SWEDEN) writes:
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=I have a Western Digital ESDI controller: WD1007A-WA2.
Me, too!
=I have understand that this controller can't read the bad-sector
=information that is stored on the harddisk.
Right!
=Does this controller destroy the bad-sector info under low-level
=formatting or is the info 'protected' ?
Protected.
Pete
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