Re: 1571 blocks free

From: A. Fachat <afachat_at_gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 07:18:11 +0200
Message-ID: <13ee46c1f64.279a.b4d1f2b66006003a6acd9b1a7b71c3b1@gmx.de>
Am 27. Mai 2013 02:06:45 schrieb silverdr@wfmh.org.pl:
>
> On 2013-05-26, at 21:21, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
>
> >> 1571 supposedly does the same for track 18 but it wastes almost whole
> >> track 53 and allocates in the BAM. Hence the question: why bother
> >> allocating if those blocks are not taken into account anyway? Maybe

> This might make sense then. If there is no special handling of this track 
> in the code, then the easiest way to disallow various routines from writing 
> sectors there was probably to just allocate all of them. But still - why 
> waste 18 perfectly healthy blocks? Looks somewhat like a quick kludge just 
> to push the drive out..

Isn't the block free count for BOTH sides/BAMs stored in the first BAM?
Then if track 18 is skipped, there can be no free block on track 53.

André



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