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Article #473Re: Can't read last cluster on drive?
From: Bruce P. Burrell
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 00:00
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In alt.comp.virus Kevin M <kevmit@flash.net> wrote: > Harry Broomhall wrote in message <7a1g6p$92a$1@quince.news.easynet.net>... >> There *used* to be a system where drives had a 'spare' cylinder for >>various purposes. This *could* be the source of this problem. > I think that would be the space used to reallocate bad clusters. Different thing: that's extra sectors per track, not the extra cylinder at the end of the drive. Unless things have changed, but I doubt it: seeking all the way to the end of the drive sounds prohibitive performance-wise. -BPB
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10c6a1,28e7ca06d81dd7b4 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c6a1,public X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,28e7ca06d81dd7b4 X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public X-Google-Thread: fcd68,28e7ca06d81dd7b4 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcd68,public From: "Bruce P. Burrell" <bpb@umich.edu> Subject: Re: Can't read last cluster on drive? Date: 1999/02/19 Message-ID: <welz2.8152$Ge3.32072890@news.itd.umich.edu> X-Deja-AN: 446210802 References: <918802496snz@longley.demon.co.uk> <7a0u7p$vt$1@bliss.lif.icnet.uk> <36c419fe.0@glitch.nildram.co.uk> <7a1g6p$92a$1@quince.news.easynet.net> <Sxkz2.390$fy.895@news.flash.net> X-Trace: news.itd.umich.edu 919461916 141.211.164.8 (Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:05:16 EDT) Organization: University of Michigan User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980514 (UNIX) (SunOS/4.1.4 (sun4m)) Reply-To: bpb@umich.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:05:16 EDT Newsgroups: alt.comp.virus,demon.tech.pc,comp.periphs