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HD BAD MAP

    16-Sep-88 23:26:13
Sb: #3991-HD BAD MAP
Fm: Steven Bennett 70046,441
To: New member 73016,27
I don't think there *is* a bad sector map. Your best bet is to copy the bad disk to a newly formatted disk. Then you might attempt to reformat the original disk, but in my experience, once a disk starts showing errors, it's pretty much a goner. Perhaps the new fast file system might have some method of ignoring bad tracks (if one sector is bad, the full track is effectively bad, given that the Amiga reads a full track at a time…) but I'm not sure… BTW, if you have serious trouble copying the disk (ie. one or more files is corrupted due to the bad track…), you can use the diskdoctor program to seek and attempt to repair (or delete) the broken file. More often than not, deletion is needed. –>Steve Bennett