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- From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
- Subject: Re: Dying IDE disk drive.
- Message-ID: <BzA8yt.F2p@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
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- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
- References: <1gdj4bINNmf3@life.ai.mit.edu> <92121423631@vtrx33.uucp>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 04:11:16 GMT
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- In article <92121423631@vtrx33.uucp> don@vtrx33.uucp (Donald E. Cope) writes:
- >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.
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- >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.
-
- I came to the conclusion that I had a head crash. The dealer replaced
- the drive, and for 150$ let me upgrade from 125Mb to 210Mb. I have most of the
- stuff restored from tape, but I still have some minor details to clean up.
-
- Thanks.
-
- -Eric
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- Eric Youngdale
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