Re: Hardware musings

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

Paul Schlyter <pausch@saaf.se> wrote:
> There will of course remain one problem: knowing *which* part of the
> disk to damage physically.... ....finding that out would require
> writing to, and reading back from, the original, to verify which parts
> of the disk surface could not be reliably written to.  :-)

It is possible that a physically damaged section of disk would return
slightly different results every time it was read.

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