> 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. There are some programs that can do a scan: DOSSCAN and PHYSCAN. I think at least one of those are on FUNet. THey can scan, but not mark sectors as BAD. But it's useful to check a disk's integrity. Also the program X-COPY (by Moonsoft) can do this. A drawback: some errors are not really reproducable. Sometimes I get different number of errors for the same disk when I scan it again. Hope this helps. Grtjs, Manuel ((m)ICQ UIN 41947405) PS: MSX 4 EVER! (Questions? See: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/) PPS: Visit my home page at http://bilderbeek.cjb.net/ **** 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 ****
