Subject: RE: bad144 on IDE disks
To: Jenkins, Graham K \[IBM GSA\] <Graham.K.Jenkins@team.telstra.com>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/18/2001 07:47:09 
>
> Oh how I wish!  I played this silly game about six times
> last week trying to do an installation on a 400Mb disk with a
> couple of bad sectors in the first 30Mb - and the first
> diagnostic I got was during the file extraction process!

make partitions begin after 30MB