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Re: Marking bad sectors
- Subject: Re: Marking bad sectors
- From: tomk@pro-sol.cts.com (Tom Kelly)
- Date: Sat, 14 Aug 93 00:08:23 PDT
- In-reply-to: mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: ProLine [pro-sol], Rancho San Diego, CA
- References: <mark-110893100632@128.157.9.146>
mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning) writes:
>My suggestion to you is to write a small program which does the following:
>1. Attempts to read a sector off of the disk.
>2. If it can not read the sector it allocates that sector as a file.
>In this way you will have a file which contains all of the bad sectors
>on the disk drive.
>Under ProDos this should not be a very hard thing to do (in assembly
>language).
Hyper Format does just that. I believe it is ShareWare.
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