14 Aug
2008
14 Aug
'08
8:02 p.m.
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Jim Leonard wrote:
Gene Buckle wrote:
Probably nothing at all. The BIOS DUMP lists the author of the code, maybe I
should try to track him down and complain :-)
Now THAT would be cool. *laughs* You should do it. :)
g.
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The truth
is that the on-board BIOS clears the screen and displays a
message essentially saying "your low-level format attempt was stopped so
that the existing bad sector mapping table could be preserved, press
ctrl-alt-delete" (although powering the system off is actually what is
required to continue). So that's the real reason SpinRite won't touch it.
That's insanely strange. I wonder what is so precious about their factory
bad track table...