Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!jmsellens From: jmsellens@watmath.UUCP (John M Sellens) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc Subject: Re: FIX FOR AT DISK PROBLEMS Message-ID: <11413@watmath.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Feb-85 17:24:28 EST Article-I.D.: watmath.11413 Posted: Sun Feb 10 17:24:28 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Feb-85 04:43:37 EST References: <7966@brl-tgr.UUCP> <6200042@hp-pcd.UUCP> Reply-To: jmsellens@watmath.UUCP (John M Sellens) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 18 Xref: watmath net.micro:9330 net.micro.pc:3300 The way I heard it: For a few versions, DOS has not marked bad sectors properly. It marked a couple of sectors in the area of the bad sectors as bad, when they were actually good, and left the bad sectors unmarked. (Now remember, this is just "what I heard", though I did hear it from a quite reliable source.) The $149 fixer program (according to the article I read) marks the bad sectors properly. Perhaps this problem is only arising now due to the new style/brand of hard disk and the possibility (fact?) that these disks have more bad sectors, and hence, more chance to get hit. Personally, I think $149 is a lot of money, but why not charge what the market will bear??? John