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To: NHP who wrote (5175)1/3/1998 1:59:00 AM
From: Joseph Chiu   of 7685
 
>> I decided to lock out the bad allocation unit rather than return the disk (I believe IDE disks are not supposed to have any bad spots on them).

>> Reformating did not solve the problem.

Strictly speaking, IDE drives can end up having bad spots on them. It's just that IDE drives (by default) hot sector fix to transparently hide bad spots on the media so DOS doesn't see that it's a bad sector.

DOS does handle bad sectors on IDE drives when reported, and allows marking said sector as unusable.
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