SCO and hard disk errors

[William E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <2354 at ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> kinmonthprep at deneb.ucdavis.edu.UUCP (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:
| What about the MSDOS partition.  The badtrk utility refuses to
| accept bad track information for the MSDOS partition but the dos*
| functions seem to have a remarkable ability to address bad tracks
| in the MSDOS partition.  Then the disk drive starts making noises
| like an old Maytag with rocks in it....

  I have never seen any problem with the utilities failing to honor the
bad track info created by the DOS "format" program. Has anyone else seem
this?

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