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- Subject: Re: Dying IDE disk drive.
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- From: don@vtrx33.uucp (Donald E. Cope)
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 12:45:05 EST
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- Eric Youngdale (ericy@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu) wrote:
- :
- : It seems that I am usually answering questions, but now the tables are
- : turned. This morning my IDE disk died. Not completely, but I get all kinds of
- : The HD error message says that
- : the error code is 0x10, the status is 0x59. The file hdreg.h says that 0x10
- : means ID_ERR, whatever that is.
- :
- :
- : -Eric
- :
- When each hard disk is low level formatted an ID is included into each and
- every sector so that when the disk is read or written, it can ensure that
- the head is at the right spot on the disk. The ID part is read and checked
- before a read or write can be performed. If you give the drive parameters
- of say cyl 75 head 2 sector 34 and you only have 17 sectors per track you
- will get a status of 0x59 or 0x51 and a error code of 0x10 saying the ID
- has not been found at this disk location.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- Don.
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