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- From: srheintze@happy.colorado.edu
- Subject: do SCSI drives revector?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.182821.1@happy.colorado.edu>
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- Date: 8 Jan 93 18:28:21 MDT
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- In early December I received a new 660mb SCSI to replace my 80MB RLL
- Micropolis.
-
- Until recently, I had terrible problems. Powerpoint would not run, Windows
- would not (re) install, Borland C++ V3.1 would not install. I could, however,
- boot from this drive.
-
- After experimenting with different sizes of partitions I finally ran PCTOOLS
- pattern tester - a program that writes various bit patterns to each sector. I
- did not see any errors. I reformatted (low-level and DOS (high) level),
- restored from the disk and have not been able to make it fail since.
-
- I would guess that SCSI drives revector the bad blocks themselves and running
- the pattern testing caused it (finally) to revector after installing and
- reinstalling a lot of software many times.
-
- It appears to me that there was a large chunk of bad blocks that have now been
- revectored. I am now confident that this is not a software or floppy
- media problem.
-
- Since the drive is still under the 90 day warrenty, should I return the drive
- for another? I'm worried that I used up all my replacement blocks already. Is
- there a way to get a list of revectored blocks?
-
- Thanks,
- Sieg
-