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Bad blocks

Gebran Krikor <voya...@eng.umd.edu>

I am trying to install Minix on a 286 with a hard drive that has a
large number of bad sectors on it. When I ran the Minix readall, as
suggested in the manual, it only found one of the sectors. This is
rather disturbing, as when I finished the installation, cpp worked
fine for the first 10 test programs, and then was reported to not be
an executable file. So, is there a program which will do a complete
test of my hard drive and mark sectors bad, or do I need to write
my own?

Gebran

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