Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: SCO and hard disk errors Keywords: sco,hard disk,errors,bad handling Message-ID: <11419@steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 29 Jun 88 15:46:23 GMT References: <51@libove.UUCP> <694@nod2sco> <2354@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Distribution: comp Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 15 In article <2354@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> kinmonthprep@deneb.ucdavis.edu.UUCP (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes: | What about the MSDOS partition. The badtrk utility refuses to | accept bad track information for the MSDOS partition but the dos* | functions seem to have a remarkable ability to address bad tracks | in the MSDOS partition. Then the disk drive starts making noises | like an old Maytag with rocks in it.... I have never seen any problem with the utilities failing to honor the bad track info created by the DOS "format" program. Has anyone else seem this? -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me