Re: Sider Hard Drive Bad Block

[jmk3@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Jay Krell)]

>From: davidhun@aludra.usc.edu (David Hunter)
>Subject: Sider Hard Drive Bad Block
 
>Also, what exactly are "bad blocks"?  Are they physical
>disk errors or something else?
 
Yes, bad blocks are usually physical problems on a hard drive.
 
>On another note, how can I utilize the full ten megabytes that I supposedly
>have rather than the 8-9Mb that's available?  I've heard that the harddrive
>can be converted to a ProDOS drive rather than using the wacky Sider format>
If you mean you have an old partitionable-by-OS Sider and you want it to be all
ProDOS, I think you need a new ROM to do that.
 
  --Jay, jay.krell@cornell.edu