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- From: Richard.Kooijman@dnpap.et.tudelft.nl (Richard Kooijman)
- Subject: Re: PKZip 2.04c quick impressions
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- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 15:50:42 GMT
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- roe2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Cave Newt) writes:
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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.
-
- Next thing you will be doing is showing us with mathematical proof
- that diskettes that show no problems are less likely to expose
- bad sectors than diskettes that already have bad sectors?
-
- What about harddisks, they are sold with bad sectors on them! You
- probably don't own one, now do you?
-
-
-
- Richard.
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