In a message dated 6/22/2005 2:29:57 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
the controller copied the 7 SDs into an unreadable part of this new record. Since we're discussing parts of the track that are physically unreadable, instead of "unreadable" I should have said "user-inaccessible". Obviously, the controller was able to read these bytes, but non-diagnostic software in the host could not. You used to be able to read the entire track by clever use of the Space Count command (IIRC), which hasn't been supported for the last couple of devices/controller types, and is no longer documented. It would let you read ALL the bytes on the track, including the inter-record gaps and all these SDs, inter alia. But what you read in was not much fun to decipher by hand and eyeball. Bill Fairchild ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
