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- From: "Marcel Offermans" <marcel@wbmt41.wbmt.tudelft.nl>
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- Subject: HELP: Testing a Quantum SCSI harddisk.
- Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 01:52:16 +0100
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- Reply-To: "M.F.Offermans" <M.F.Offermans@WbMT.TUDelft.NL>
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- I have a somewhat strange request. I'm looking for people with experience
- on testing harddisks. Let me describe the problem.
-
- I recently bought two identical Quantum SCSI harddisks from a shop here in
- the Netherlands. When I came home, one of them worked, whereas the other
- didn't (in the exactly same configuration, with three other devices on the
- SCSI bus). So I returned this drive to the shop. They sent it back to the
- distributor.
-
- This distributor tested the drive with Norton's Disk Doctor on an MS-DOS
- machine. They did a surface test and printed the physical and logical disk
- information. This test didn't return a failure.
-
- In my system, the SCSI bus locked (the SCSI led of the bus itself stayed
- on) when I had the drive connected to it. That meant that sometimes the
- system didn't boot at all. Sometimes it did boot, but then the SCSI bus
- locked when trying to write to the drive. I want to emphasize again that
- the other identical drive I bought did work (and that I double checked all
- jumpers half a dozen times to make sure they were set correctly). In the
- mean time, I have bought a third identical drive (at a different shop) and
- this one works without problems too.
-
- The problem is that the shop now claims that the drive works. They want to
- charge me for the test.
-
- My question: Is the Norton diskdoctor test thorough? I mean, can a drive be
- defective (looking at the SCSI specs) without this defect showing up in the
- test?
-
- I welcome every response on this subject. Please respond as soon as
- possible, since I really need the answers before Saturday, April 5th.
- Please reply in e-mail (to: M.F.Offermans@WbMT.TUDelft.NL) and don't follow
- up, because the message is crossposted. Thanks very much in advance.
-
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- Marcel Offermans
- e-mail: M.F.Offermans@WbMT.TUDelft.NL
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