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Re: Marking bad sectors

Subject: Re: Marking bad sectors
From: 90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca (TAO BRIAN T)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1993 17:21:41 GMT
In-reply-to: rjd@alpha.sunquest.com (Robert J. Dull)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: Terran Exobiology Research Institute, 1-800-GO-ALIEN
References: <10AUG199314402917@alpha.sunquest.com>
Reply-to: 90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca (Brian Tao)

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.
--
Brian Tao:: taob@io.org (Internex Online, 416-363-3783, 10 lines, v.32bis)
::::::::::: 90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca (University of Toronto, 9T4)

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