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Re: Bad blocks

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From: Tim Jackson
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:00
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Not so long ago, Dave Beames wrote:

>In the case of my particular HD, HDToolBox tells me that there are 15
>heads, 63 blocks per track.  That gives 63x15=945 blks per cyl, which
>makes sense, because I supposedly have a total of 8940 cylinders (even
>though I can't use them all), giving 4.3GB.

That seems to make sense Dave so thanks, I'll save this posting and put it
aside for the next time something like this (inevitably) happens.

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Date: 2000/04/05
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