2 Disk questions...

[daye@PEAK.ORG (Even the losers get lucky)]

First, and most important:

I made some backups of one of my source code directories a while back.  
Very recently, the partition with those directories crashed.  No 
problemo, I thought, I'll just restore the backups.  *choke*.  One of the 
disks has bad blocks on it all the sudden.  Archiver gags and refuses to 
restore anything (the backups is just one big shrinkit archive.)  Can I 
somehow zap the bad blocks so archiver doesn't choke?  I don't care if 
the original information is there, because (hopefully) just a few files 
in the restored archive would be damaged.  At any rate, I want to at 
least try, because I don't want to start from scratch (again) on a couple 
of projects I was working on.

Second: 

I have several 5.25" disks that boot with the message "Not a startup 
disk" which definitely *are* startup disks.  I remember seeing something 
here about tweaking a location in track 0 to try and work around this.  
Anyone care to repost/refurnish the information?

Thanks much.


-- 
|Evan Day                | "You can try and destroy what's already spent    
| daye@peak.org          |  You can blame on your hat the thoughts in your head
|"Redneckers, they get us|     Archer of Loaf         
| pissed" - Black Francis| They've got the guns but we've got the numbers.