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- From: kinsell@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Dave Kinsell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: HELP: gcc for a HP9000/300 and fixing HP7945's
- Message-ID: <7371520@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 00:03:38 GMT
- References: <korg.726120462@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- In comp.sys.hp, korg@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au (Cameron Blackwood) writes:
-
- >
- > Problems:
- > * I have 2 extra drives (HP7945s) each powers up with the fault
- > light on.
- > - On one of them, I can run mediainit and newfs but they both fail with
- > a write error (a bad block?). How do I mark a bad block?
-
- Mediainit does a verification pass and spares out bad blocks on its own.
- The fact that the fault light comes on indicates the drive detected a
- major problem during its self-test. An inability to write would tend to
- confirm this.
-
-
- > - The other wont even attempt to work, I have been told that it has
- > been scrubbed and lost its HP specific first sector or something.
- > Is their any way to totally re initialise this drive?
-
- It sounds like a total hardware failure such that reading and writing are
- not possible. This can't be induced by any sort of scrubbing that a user
- could do.
-
- -Dave Kinsell
- kinsell@hpfcmb.fc.hp.com
-