In the last episode (Dec 18), Stephen Hovey said:
> I'd like to know myself if there is something for IDE drives. Its
> the thing keeping me from using IDE
All modern IDE drives do bad-block remapping just like SCSI drives, and
if you start getting write errors passed up to you, then the drive has
already used up all its spares and will likely fail completely soon.
As for floppies, fdformat does a verify pass and will tell you if it
couldn't format a track. If you install the mtools port, the
"mbadblocks" command will scan an already-formatted floppy and mark
unreadable areas as used in the FAT.
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Dan Nelson
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