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
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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?

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