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- From: bush@cae.prds.cdx.mot.com (Michael Bush)
- Subject: Re: Using SpinRite on portables
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.122327.15436@cae.prds.cdx.mot.com>
- Keywords: SpinRite, Dell 320N, Sharp PC-7100
- Organization: none
- References: <5934@pdxgate.UUCP>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 12:23:27 GMT
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- h2co@odin.cc.pdx.edu (Candace O'Connor) writes:
-
- [...]
- >specifically warns against doing a low-level format. The technical
- >guy said No, do not use SpinRite; when I asked why, he said that is
- >because the Dell has an IDE HD, and "...the controller is on the
- >hard drive". Comments? Experiences? Advice? I am tempted to just
- >back up the machine and give it a try, if I can't get specific
- >information. Any chance of screwing things up by doing that?
-
- Spinrite doesn't support IDE hard drives, so it will either crash
- on you or exit after warning you that there is a disk cache active.
- You can try running it if you want, but if it does try to do anything
- to the drive it will probably trash it.
- --
- Mike Bush
- Motorola Codex - Mansfield, MA
- bush@cae.prds.cdx.mot.com or bush_m@msm.cdx.mot.com
-