On 23/10/06, Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
While that *may* work, I would guess that the scratch was outside the written data area on the disk and all you did was tell the drive that the unwritten portion of the disk was _not damaged_. A scratch in the data area of the disk would certainly have resulted in damaged data tracks and corrupt data (that may or may not have been correctable). The severity (width) of the scratch would also have been a factor.
The scratch was not especially near the center of the disk. Also, I was able to read the first 10 or so pictures before the fix, and all of the disk afterwards. So a portion of the disk was in fact readable before the fix. Next time I backup, I don't mind doing an experiment on my old backup disk. I'll make a light scratch, prove to myself that the drive cannot read it, and then try to fix it with a marker. I'll post the results if there's interest. Dotan Cohen http://fedoratricks.com http://dotancohen.com/howto/netscape_bat_email.php
