🚀 go-pugleaf

[Tim was referring to my problem -- not being able to boot from a
 cheap (Disctron) hard disk formatted with an Adaptec 2070B RLL
 controller:]

> So, either you have formatted the disk improperly, or, cylinder 0, head 0, and
> sector 1 is marked defective.
> 
> Good luck... (if you see the message XXXX bytes in bad tracks when you run
> CHKDSK, the problem is more than likely the second case).
>
> Tim Margeson  {amd..hplabs}cae780!tektronix!tekigm2!timothym

I don't see ANY bytes in bad tracks from CHKDSK -- the bad sector
marking is done at the controller level.  I get a somewhat smaller
disk capacity than would otherwise be the case, but there's an
improvement in performance over having DOS manage bad clusters.

I suppose there could be a problem at the physical boot location,
but that wasn't on the list written on the disk drive.  I could
reformat it and check again, I suppose.
-- 
{hplabs,amdahl,3comvax}!bnrmtv!perkins        --Henry Perkins

It is better never to have been born.  But who among us has such luck?
One in a million, perhaps.