How do I make the Mac forget bad disk blocks ?

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From: Anders Sjolund
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1988 08:36

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Yesterday my harddisk hit the point where whenever I try to write anything new
to the disk I get a disk error. Presumably this is because I've hit a bad
block. To my astonishment the mac seems to keep the bad block in the free list,
so when I try again, the operation results in the same error. Please, would
anybody tell me that this is not the case; that the mac discards bad blocks as
it should, and never tries to use them again ? Do I really have to reformat the
disk ? The disk is a 20Mb Rodime RO652, with about 7 Mbytes free.

Please, tell me what to do !

AdvTHANKSance, anderss@uplog.se


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From: anderss@uplog.se (Anders Sjolund)
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Subject: How do I make the Mac forget bad disk blocks ?
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Date: 11 Nov 88 08:36:55 GMT
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