14 Aug
2008
14 Aug
'08
7:41 p.m.
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 :-)
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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...