On Sat, 3 Jun 2000 20:47:04 +0200, Laurens Holst wrote: >I am wondering... The possibility to mark clusters as 'bad' exists in the >FAT. However, I have never seen a utility on MSX to do a 'surface scan' (as >SCANDISK puts it). Now, I can program it myself, however I need a few >details. I have one that does exactly this. (-; My actual problem is that we have to cope with several problems doing this, using CHKDSK, BADSCAN (this is the "badsector searcher and marker") and this will simply make impossible to use IMPROVE, because IMPROVE doesn't defrag partitions with bad sectors. I was developing an integrated CHKDSK+BADSCAN+IMPROVE, but I just had not enough time do unassemble CHKDSK. If you want to, I can send you BADSCAN, that only marks unused sectors, or I can send you my "updated" version that marks used sectors also (using a new command line option). ----- AbraçOS/2, Daniel Caetano ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) /| | | |\ \| ___ |/ OS/2 Sites: http://www.quasarbbs.com/daniel/ \/ ----- \/ http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/8752/os2hp/os2index.html | | MSX Sites: http://www.fudeba.cjb.net/ -- -- Drawings: http://www.djgallery.tsx.org/ ...Programar e' a arte de organizar zeros e uns de forma que eles produzam trabalho util! **** MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes) in the body (not the subject) of the message. Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] More information on MSX can be found in the following places: The MSX faq: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/ The MSX newsgroup: comp.sys.msx The MSX IRC channel: #MSX on Undernet ****
