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- From: behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Hard Drive problems, Low Level format didn't help!
- Message-ID: <behrenss.716492885@hphalle6>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 17:48:05 GMT
- References: <1992Sep13.132819.1@acad3.alaska.edu>
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- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
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- fsemm@acad3.alaska.edu (Edward M. Moore) writes:
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- [Description of re-appearing bad blocks on SyQuest cartridge]
-
- >salvagable data (everything but shoebox) on another cartridge. Now, then, is
- >my current cartrage unuable, considering that a low-level format didn't even
- >help? Is there anything I can do at this point besides tossing the $70
- >cartrige?
-
- You can. As the mechanism does not seem to put the bad blocks into its bad
- blocks table automatically (perhaps it has none such feature, I would not
- know), what you can do is wait until the errors occur, take ProSel-16,
- and do a Bad Block Scan with Fix. ProSel will create a "Bad.Blocks" file
- which you must not remove. This prevents GS/OS (or P8, for that matter)
- from writing onto or reading from the bad blocks.
-
- Of course, you could also create that file with a sector editor ... have
- fun :)
-
- Soenke
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