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- From: orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich)
- Subject: Re: Formatting hard drive with one bad head
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.085153.27085@weyrich.UUCP>
- Sender: orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich)
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- Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
- References: <Bx75nq.HK9@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 92 08:51:53 GMT
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- In article <Bx75nq.HK9@news.cso.uiuc.edu> walder@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (John Walder) writes:
- > I am trying to low-level format a Seagate ST-4096 80 MB hard drive from
- > an IBM AT. When formatting it one head consistently fails and thus the
- > bad track map runs out of room. Does anyone know of a way to reformat
- > Thanks, John
-
- It depends on which head is bad and what your bios is. Ideally, it is the
- ninth head (head 8) which is bad and your bios supports user-defined disk
- geometries.
-
- In such a case, you just define a disk with one fewer heads. If it is the
- first head (head 0), then you are SOL. For intermediate cases, you choose
- a disk type with no more cylinders and no more heads than the number of good
- heads BEFORE the bad head. You will of course loose capacity.
-
- I think it costs about $200 to rebuild an ST-4096. It is not really worth it,
- since you can get new IDE's for about that price if you shop carefully. That
- is, unless you have two ST-4096's so that you want to stay with MFM.
-
- orville
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