Re: Masking Bad blocks on Apple IDE HDs?

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From: Thomas Schierle
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 00:00

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Andrew,

IMHO masking bad blocks is handledby the drives internally
and you should never need to mask them with a HD tool.

If you encounter bad blocks on an IDE drive there must be
another problem, or the dive is totally defective.

-Thomas


andrew winter <andy@arch.usyd.edu.au> wrote:

> I've now had 3 Apple IDE HDs fail with bad blocks (Drive Setup claims it
> was interupted, disk errors when copying files from a known good source).
> 
> Can anyone recommend a utility (shareware or commercial) that will mask
> bad blocks in an IDE HD in a mac? [I have an old version of FWB's HDT that
> doesnt support IDE drives]....
> 
> At $AU 410 for a 4g IDE it's not worth replacing the drives in the
> performa 5200s and powermac 6360s.
> 
> Similarily, can anyone recommend a formatter that will format non apple
> IDE drives in performas?
> 
> [and where can i find 500-1g ide drives in australia at a reasonable price]
> 
> all responses via email pls
> andy@arch.usyd.edu.au


-- 
Thomas Schierle, Munich
mailto:T_Schierle@csi.com

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From: T_Schierle@csi.com (Thomas Schierle)
Subject: Re: Masking Bad blocks on Apple IDE HDs?
Date: 1998/06/19
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