Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!ABN.ISCAMS@Usc-Isid.ARPA From: ABN.ISCAMS@Usc-Isid.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: Re: Need help marking bad sectors on hard disk Message-ID: <759@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Jun-84 09:28:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.759 Posted: Mon Jun 11 09:28:00 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Jun-84 02:29:24 EDT Lines: 23 Ted, I tried FINDBAD, a CP/M public domain program available on one of the SIG/M disks and also available via FTP from SIMTEL20 (can get you specific pointerss if interested). It seems to work OK on floppies (though sometimes it doesn't find ALL the bad tracks - don't know why!), but never tried it on my hard disk (a Morrow- provided 5-Megger with my Decision I) -- scared, I guess! My hard disk formatting program seems to do a pretty good job of locating bad sectors - at least it never found any, and I never get a bad sector error! However that formatting program is proprietary, so I can't give it to you. I THINK there was an older Morrow hard disk formatting program also at SIMTEL20, but don't have the pointers right here and don't remember the details (I looked at it out of curiosity but had no need for it). Sorry I can't be of more use,but maybe this'll point you toward something useful. Regards, David Kirschbaum Toad Hall (ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID)