Re: Marking bad sectors

[bazyar@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar)]

90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca (TAO BRIAN T) writes:

>In article <10AUG199314402917@alpha.sunquest.com>, Robert J. Dull writes...
>> 
>> Is there anyway of "marking" these sectors as bad so that the operating
>> system never attempts to save or retrieve anything from them again?

>    Prosel-16 will do that for you (it creates a file which contains all
>the bad sectors).  I'm pretty sure Prosel-8 will do it too.

  I wrote a freeware utility called Big Bad Block Buncher for ProDOS-8 
that does this. For free. :-)

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