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- From: roe2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Cave Newt)
- Subject: Re: PKZip 2.04c quick impressions
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.182358.14354@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 18:23:58 GMT
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- I wrote:
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- >:An even better solution would be to get rid of the bad disk entirely
-
- hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman) writes:
-
- >What is wrong with skipping the bad sector and continuing using the
- >rest of the disk?
-
- If there's one bad sector already, chances are another will show up
- sooner or later--either because the diskette is physically damaged
- and other parts of it might flake, or because it has "weak" sectors
- which will eventually fail as the diskette ages. Either way, an ar-
- chiving utility should avoid such disks--you want your data to survive,
- n'est-ce pas? And compressors in particular don't do very well when
- there's a bad piece in the middle of the compressed data stream.
-
- Greg
-