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Don't you remember MFM and RLL with CHS addressing? Disk controller wasn't mapping bad blocks out, it was the file system.
by Sami_Lehtinen 14y ago
Don't you remember MFM and RLL with CHS addressing? Disk controller wasn't mapping bad blocks out, it was the file system.
- baruch 14y agoIndeed, but life then was different, the CPU was weaker and there was a good intention with pushing everything to the disk. The intention is still good but it is now possible to do things better in a different way.