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Article #29944Re: SH204 disk errors
From: Jim Tittsler
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1988 03:21
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1988 03:21
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In article <46@lzaz.ATT.COM>, hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) writes: > [...] > 3. SH204 CANNOT report ANY ERROR to the computer. > > So why doesn't everyone die on a disk error? The Adaptec interface > does the retries, and if successful, all is well. What happens > if the sector is BAD? You read in junk, fail to get the error message, > and see strange things. That is definitely NOT true. The SH204 and SH205 do indeed return with an error flagged when one occurs. Jim Tittsler, Atari Corporation
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!imagen!atari!jwt From: jwt@atari.UUCP (Jim Tittsler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: SH204 disk errors Message-ID: <930@atari.UUCP> Date: 6 Jan 88 03:21:37 GMT References: <46@lzaz.ATT.COM> Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 13 Keywords: sh204, disk, strange behavior Summary: SH204/SH205 *DO* report errors