Hard disk problems?

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From: George A. Theall
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1988 13:04

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    In last month's IRUG newsletter I read about how Suitable Solutions
had discovered that DOS could be improperly marking clusters as "bad"
when formatting a disk and not reporting trouble when doing i/o from
supposedly "good" sectors. There was even a floppy to programs
to detect and fix this bug! While I don't want to doubt Suitable
Solutions credibility, I also get worried about doing low-level
operations with my hard disk. Has DEC admitted there is a problem?
Is there really a problem? If so, who is responsible for any damage
caused by this bug? DEC? MicroSoft?

George

P.S. If there's anyone out there who's not a subscriber to IRUG
and wants these 2 programs, send me e-mail. If there's enough demand,
I'll UUENCODE them and send them to the list. Just use them at your
own risk - I don't want to assume any responsibility for this.

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Subject: Hard disk problems?
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