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- From: root@rkamiga.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Disk validating in 2.0 ??
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <root.037v@rkamiga.UUCP>
- References: <00964AFA.F74E9480@vms.csd.mu.edu> <Byv3DE.IGy@NeoSoft.com> <root.035r@rkamiga.UUCP> <Bz0yoE.Gz2@NeoSoft.com>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 04:31:40 EST
- Organization: Rick's Amiga
- Lines: 33
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- In article <Bz0yoE.Gz2@NeoSoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
- >In article <root.035r@rkamiga.UUCP> root@rkamiga.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
- >> >Also, how do I find how many bad sectors my SCSI drive has invisibly fixed
- >> >for me?
- >
- >> There are 2 bad sector lists on a SCSI disk. One is the Factory Defect List,
- >> which the SCSI format command uses by default, and the other is the Grown
- >> Defect List, which is bad sectors that have been removed during operation.
- >
- >> A simple SCSI command can return a structure that contains either of the
- >> lists.
- >
- >And what is the standard utility shipped with the system that lets me look
- >at these lists?
- >
- >I know, it's a cheap shot, and I didn't get one for UNIX from Intel either,
- >and it hosed me there too, but the Amiga really needs to provide these tools
- >more than UNIX does: if you're depending on a bunch of UNIX systems you usually
- >have a tame wizard to get you out of jams like this.
-
- Since accessing SCSI drive defect lists isn't well defined by the ANSI SCSI
- spec, the best you can expect is that the data will be accessible from the
- same MODESELECT page across all SCSI drives, but the MODESELECT page bytes
- will be different. :-(
-
- So you get a manual for the drive and hack.
-
-
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