Date   : Mon, 11 Jun 1984 06:28:00-PDT
From   : ABN.ISCAMS@Usc-Isid.ARPA
Subject: Re: Need help marking bad sectors on hard disk

Ted,

I tried FINDBAD, a CP/M public domain program available on one of the
SIG/M disks and also available via FTP from SIMTEL20 (can get you specific
pointerss if interested).

It seems to work OK on floppies (though sometimes it doesn't find ALL the
bad tracks - don't know why!), but never tried it on my hard disk (a Morrow-
provided 5-Megger with my Decision I) -- scared, I guess!  My hard disk
formatting program seems to do a pretty good job of locating bad sectors -
at least it never found any, and I never get a bad sector error!  However
that formatting program is proprietary, so I can't give it to you.  I THINK
there was an older Morrow hard disk formatting program also at SIMTEL20,
but don't have the pointers right here and don't remember the details
(I looked at it out of curiosity but had no need for it).

Sorry I can't be of more use,but maybe this'll point you toward something
useful.

Regards,
David Kirschbaum
Toad Hall
(ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID)