henry nelson wrote:

>It's certainly NOT good practice, particularly NOT for a production system,
>but for a hobbyist using dumpster-grade hardware, partitioning off bad areas
>of a disk can make it possible to continue using a faulty disk.

Odd. Even my oldest disk drive (15 years old) has the capability of 
"mapping out" bad sectors. Why can't you do it that way?

Dan Killoran