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2015-08-18 19:33
soci

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Formatting disks with faults

Is there a disk formatting tool for 1541 which is able to detect a small faulty location and then it can lay out the sectors so that the fault ends up somewhere in a gap?

I have lots of slightly faulty disks which I don't want to throw out just because there's a small fault on one of the tracks.
 
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2015-08-23 08:46
TheRyk

Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2345
And don't validate, right? ;)
2015-08-23 08:52
soci

Registered: Sep 2003
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You can validate as much as you like. That's only a problem for the BAM method.
2015-08-24 19:40
Zer0-X
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Haven't taken a detailed look of the resulting disk layout yet, but are you locating the error at a sector gap or at the track gap where there's usually plenty of space?
2015-08-25 10:55
soci

Registered: Sep 2003
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If by track gap you mean the space after the last sector before the first sector comes again, then yes it goes into that bigger gap.
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