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- From: res@colnet.cmhnet.org (Rob Stampfli)
- Subject: Re: Question about Expert Diagnostic Mode
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.040028.6141@colnet.cmhnet.org>
- Organization: Little to None
- References: <1992Dec15.193426.9189@rock.concert.net>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 04:00:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec15.193426.9189@rock.concert.net> toddwall@rock.concert.net (R. Todd Wall -- Catholic Diocese of Raleigh -- Computer Services) writes:
- >
- > In the Expert Diagnostics mode when I do 6,6 which is the
- >Non-Distructive HD test it says. Start=48, num of block=39312, Increment=8
- >
- > Does Increment=8 mean that it checks every 8th block? If so, how
- >do I set the Increment to 1 so that it'll check every block?
-
- No, the Increment=8 means that the program reads/writes in chunks of 8
- logical blocks (8K bytes) at a time, or, in other words, it checks one
- track per operation. I don't know if this program actually checks the
- one spare physical block per track or not.
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