From: Brian (bmcewen_at_comcast.net)
Date: Sun Dec 05 2004 - 07:53:50 PST
On Sunday, December 5, 2004, at 06:27 AM, newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
wrote:
> From: Tony Kan <tony.kan_at_clear.net.nz>
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] NamesFixer
>
> Laurent
>
> All the informatoin is on a linear card. In the PC world there is a
> utility
> called chkdsk that allows sectors to be checked and potentially fixed.
> Is
> there a similar utility for the Newton? TIA
>
No, there is not a way to map out bad spots and live with reduced size
of a damaged card and still use it on a MP.
As an experiment ages ago, I had an Intel card with bad sectors, I was
able to find Win98 utilities from Intel to map out the bad sectors and
use it as a 3.2 meg card instead of 4- but only with the DOS filesystem
under Windows. The people here who know the low-level Newton hardware
stuff rather well said there was not a way to do something equivalent
on the Newton.
Brian
-- ... we parted each feeling superior to the other and is not that feeling after all one of the great desiderata of social intercourse -archy _The Life and Times of Archy and Mehitabel_ -- This is the NewtonTalk list - http://www.newtontalk.net/ for all inquiries Official Newton FAQ: http://www.chuma.org/newton/faq/ WikiWikiNewt for all kinds of articles: http://tools.unna.org/wikiwikinewt/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sun Dec 05 2004 - 15:00:02 PST