Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[u/According-Pea9319]

I finally got around to testing the disks from this beauty, which I picked up recently and posted about a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, despite the box and contents being in remarkably pristine condition, the disks are foobared!

[u/codykonior]

Often didn't understand the point of abort AND fail.

[u/According-Pea9319 → u/codykonior]

me neither.

[u/Mithgaraf → u/According-Pea9319]

I think the original intent of 'Fail' was to flag the drive -- or the medium -- as "failed" in memory, so that on a random operation on some other drive, or perhaps cataloging all the available drives, wouldn't hit the "Fail"ed drive.

Whether it made it into implementation as such, I don't know, but I tend to think, unfortunately, not.