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From: anderson@zymurgy.bms.com (Jay Anderson)
Subject: limit on number of bad sectors that can be handled?
Message-ID: <ANDERSON.92Aug25134225@zymurgy.bms.com>
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Organization: BMS Pharmaceutical Research Institute
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 18:42:25 GMT
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Is there a limit on the number of blocks that can me labeled bad by bad144?

I have 12 cylinders of 26 sectors (312 blocks) bad on my RLL disk.  When I run
bad144 -a -c wd0 block#, it keeps saying that the bad sector table contains duplicates.
However, bad144 never prints out a list containing the blocks that I entered :-(.

Any light on the subject would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Jay Anderson
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