Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!godot!ima!johnl From: johnl@ima.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Re: FIX FOR AT DISK PROBLEMS Message-ID: <476@ima.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Feb-85 23:43:56 EST Article-I.D.: ima.476 Posted: Sun Feb 10 23:43:56 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 02:48:33 EST Lines: 15 Nf-ID: #R:hp-pcd:-620004200:ima:11700009:000:767 Nf-From: ima!johnl Feb 10 21:43:00 1985 Sorry to report that although DFixer does what it's supposed to do, it is not the long-sought fix for PC AT disk problems. DFixer is just the thing when you have disks with marginal spots on the platters. Unfortunately, the problem with AT disks is looking increasingly like a design flaw in the per-drive electronics, and DFixer can't fix that. I hear that the guy who wrote DFixer thinks that you can tell real marginal spots from the AT's phantom ones, and is working on a new version of DFixer that takes this into account. John Levine, ima!johnl PS: As has been suggested, DFIxer knows about the DOS file format and can be run quite safely on a disk with data on it. If it finds that a sector that is in use is bad, you lose, but you already lost anyway.