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- From: pwright@crash.cts.com (Phil Wright)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: FIRST TOUCH with Jaz drive
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 07:21:24 GMT
- Organization: CTS Network Services
- Message-ID: <504.6660T1382T2969@crash.cts.com>
- References: <2203.6658T1372T580@guest.arnes.si> <635.6659T644T668@crash.cts.com> <1637.6659T1415T1090@guest.arnes.si>
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- On 27-Mar-96 03:42:09, Jernej Pecjak was reported to have said:
- >>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.
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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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- It's not because the defect list is so big, though it typically is pretty
- large, it's because the drive goes out and verifies each sector and
- generates a new defect list.
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- Phil
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- pwright@crash.cts.com
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