Hard Disk questions

Ed Horch ebh at argon.UUCP
Sat Jul 1 09:16:53 AEST 1989


In article <19995 at cup.portal.com> thad at cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>MB, formatted (std, 17 sec/trk)	42.8			71.2
>
>MB, formatted (UNIXPC, 16 sec/trk)	40.3			67.1
>(ignoring the spare sec per track)

What does the Unix PC do with that extra sector?  Is that how it
remaps bad blocks?

-Ed



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