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- From: vid.pecjak@guest.arnes.si (Jernej Pecjak)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: FIRST TOUCH with Jaz drive
- Date: 26 Mar 1996 22:42:09 GMT
- Organization: Academic and Research Network of Slovenia
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- >On 26-Mar-96 02:54:18, Jernej Pecjak was reported to have said:
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- >>There seems to
- >>be a bug in HD Toolbox because when I start it the drive needs 15 minutes
- >>to go through the checking scsi devices phase.
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- >It's not a bug in HDToolbox. It's the Jaz drive. When HDToolbox scans
- >the bus it asks for the defect list from each device. For some bizarre
- >reason the Jaz drive goes out validates the entire media when it gets the
- >request for the defect list and this is what is taking so long.
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- >If you run ProbeSCSI on it, you'll see the same thing and after 15 minutes
- >or so you'll get the defect list back.
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- You want to say the defect list is so big it must map it for 15 minutes?
- RDPrep doesn't do that. Wierd.
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- Jernej
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