Got 8" drive on PC working

[Geoff Reed]

At 06:07 PM 3/5/2005, you wrote:

>-Snip-
>So anyway, when I was formatting the disk, it didn't seem to like the last
>4-6 tracks or so.  Above the clatter of the noisy fan (bad bearings) I
>could hear the head recalibrating.  When the format finished, it reported
>107520 bytes in bad sectors.  This comes out to 210 bad sectors (assuming
>512 bytes per sector) which comes out to some weird number of tracks.
>Aren't there supposed to be 26 sectors per track?

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sounds like 4 bad tracks, plus a few bad sectors elsewhere..