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From: Kevin Spier
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 1990 23:14

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I have 2 Miniscribe 43 Mb hardisks in my Epson Equity III+ w/ the
standard Western Digital controller. I am planning to upgrade to a
Perstor PS-180-16-FN controller so that I can increase my capactity
90% (as advertised). The only thing is that I remember that before
doing the low level format last time (when I installed the second hard
drive) I entered in a list of sectors/tracks/clusters (whichever) that
were reported to be defective/bad. I cannot find this list for either
of the drives. Is this critical??? Can I do the low-level format
without it and expect to get the correct results? If not is there a
way to dump out this info from the disk itself? I used SpeedStor to
format one disk and DiskManagaer to format the the other. Please
e-mail directly to me ASAP. Thank you very much.

Kevin L. Spier
spierk@turing.cs.rpi.edu


Kevin L. Spier
spierk@turing.cs.rpi.edu

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