On Sun, 04 Jun 2000 19:41:27 +0200, Albert Beevendorp wrote: >> No! (-; This is why the original BADSCAN only marks "not used" sectors as >>bad. I updated it to mark used also, but then I have to use CHKDSK (which >>KNOWS bad sectors) to "cut" the files at the bad sectors position. The >>error is that CHKDSK puts the FFF mark in the place of the BadSector mark, >>when a file is "cutted". So, after run CHKDSK we have to run BADSCAN again. >>This is why I'm trying to integrate them... And about relocate bad sectors... >>I think maybe there is no way... (-; Not using the default (standard) read >>methods. >Oops, the proper value to write for a bad cluster is #FF7.shouldn't be that >hard to fix I guess. Yup, but there is the need to unassemble CHKDSK and make it check the situation. Unassemble CHKDSK is the hard work, not change it. >> >I think (because of what you told me) not. In that case I'd prefer to have >> >the info I requested so that I can make my own program. Then I'm sure it >> >does what I want (and what it should do). >> If it's possible. >Why shouldn't it be possible? Because reading with standard calls we cannot read bad sectors! The values read are not the values on the sector. Maybe with direct access, I don't know. But on MegaSCSI I think it's not possible, since the interface does everything (including reporting bad sectors as "drive not ready" instead of read error... :-) ----- 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 ****
