Mauro Strani wrote:
Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:Another thought--how long have you waited for them to "go ready"? I have one that takes about 3-4 minutes, but finally "makes it".They used to come ready in a longer time than the old good days.Put another way, what makes you think that they need reformatting, or that reformatting will fix them?I know there is the spare block table issue, so it could be that I ran out of them and a reformatting could recover some of them.
If that's the problem, can't an application scan the blocks and put the bad ones into a "file" that is kept locked? In other words, can't this problem be handled above the formatting level? -michael Music synthesis for 8-bit Apple II's! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it is seriously underused."