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- From: wendell@medsys.rn.com (Wendell Dingus)
- Subject: Re: A1200 HD question
- Organization: Med-Systems, Kingsport, Tennessee
- Date: 13 Jan 1993 01:26:36 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan13.012636.22438@medsys.rn.com>
- References: <1993Jan9.191116.20831@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1993Jan10.171708.8502@medsys.rn.com> <1993Jan11.082649.7882@cheshire.oxy.edu>
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- khan@cheshire.oxy.edu (Onnie Lynn Winebarger) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan10.171708.8502@medsys.rn.com> wendell@medsys.rn.com (Wendell Dingus) writes:
- >>ccb8m@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Charles C. Bundy) writes:
- >>
- >>>I've had my 1200HD/80 for a week and a half. The problem is this :)
- >>>My Maxtor HD is acting flakey. It started giving me block errors as
- >>>I put stuff onto the HD. Needless to say I immediately whipped out
- >>>HDtoolbox and did a "verify drive." Five times I ran it and five
- >>>times it came back with "No Errors"! However when I would attempt to
- >>>read certain files I still got the "block error" requestor.
- >>
- >>>OK me thinks, let us do a low level format! Well I tried and tried AND
- >>>tried, but it never worked! Nothing was ever deleted! No Low level format
- >>>was ever done! Before I yell at C= or my dealer, I thought I'd see if
- >>>I was doing anything wrong.
- >>
- >>>Can anybody give me any clues?
- >>
- >>Is this a Maxtor 2585AT you're using? I'm going to be installing two of these
- >>particular drives for customers in 1200's either Tuesday or Wednesday of this
- >>week. I sure hope they work ok! Has anyone verified whether they have the
- >>64K maxtransfer bug many 2.5" drives have? I thought I read that they didn't.
- >>
- >>
- >>--
- >>-- Wendell Dingus internet: wendell@medsys.rn.com //
-
- >Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought you couldn't low-level format any
- >IDE hard drive. This could present a real problem :).
- >Lynn
- >khan@cheshire.oxy.edu
-
- Right... Sort of. You *CAN* low-level format an IDE drive but you don't
- WANT to! They all come low-level formatted and all defects mapped out from
- the factory. Also, most of them have fake numbers for heads/cyls/secs since
- drives have been shrinking and lots of them only have 1 or maybe 2 platters.
- PC's have these nice hard-coded numbers for various sizes of drives which
- is so utterly stupid. For some reason that 1" thick Maxtor 7080A with
- parameters of 980cyls, 10heads and 17secs/track looks just a bit "thin"
- to have 5 platters (10 r/w heads) :-) Have no idea on that particular
- drive, but suspect it's a single platter.
-
- --
- -- Wendell Dingus internet: wendell@medsys.rn.com //
- -- uucp: uunet!gator!medsys!wendell Only AMIGA! \X/
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