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prowler · 12 March 2016, 00:14

I guess what I'm really asking is would HDTools, for example, actually create a hardfile with sectors flagged as bad from a hard disk with bad sectors? Would it not quit when it encounters a bad sector? (I haven't had any Amiga hard drives with bad sectors, so I really don't know.)

If so, then what the OP wants could be conjured up from a good RDB image and knowledge of how the sectors are mapped as bad in the RDB.

In this way I imagine it would only be possible to mark the block as physically unreadable, but might that not be sufficient to test the OP's proposed Disk-Monitor/Editor error-trapping routines?

12 March 2016, 00:14	#7
prowler Global Moderator Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Sidcup, England Posts: 10,300	I guess what I'm really asking is would HDTools, for example, actually create a hardfile with sectors flagged as bad from a hard disk with bad sectors? Would it not quit when it encounters a bad sector? (I haven't had any Amiga hard drives with bad sectors, so I really don't know.) If so, then what the OP wants could be conjured up from a good RDB image and knowledge of how the sectors are mapped as bad in the RDB. In this way I imagine it would only be possible to mark the block as physically unreadable, but might that not be sufficient to test the OP's proposed Disk-Monitor/Editor error-trapping routines? Last edited by prowler; 12 March 2016 at 00:35. Reason: More questions.