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"Joe Spanicek" <Joe.Spanicek@alcatel.com.au> wrote in message news:3976832C.68CBB3DA@alcatel.com.au...
| Hi,
|
| Rather than the drive itself, maybe the controler on drive stuffed up
| somewhat - possibly a hot joint somewhere. Or it may have been something
| wrong with the drive cable connection. Pulling out and putting back may
| have fixed it.

Yes, although some combination with writing to every sector must have taken
place. A logically bad sector will stay bad until it is overwritten, so read
testing on another system will still show them bad.
Most diagnostic programs will not go far enough in that they will try to
read a sector ad infinitem and then decide it is bad instead of writing to
it first and then read (format, scandisk). 
There lies a dilemma because that test will be data destructive and user 
intervention is needed to query if that is acceptable.

--
Folkert Rienstra
(don't email me please, reply to the group)
visit Gary Field's SCSI Info Central at www.scsifaq.org

|
| Joe
|
| Ian Lowery wrote:
| >
| > I had a very mysterious hard drive crash and resurrection recently,
| > and it has me rather mystified.
| >
| > The drive is a Quantum KA, 13 Gb, and only 8 months old. It has
| > multiple logical drives in the extended partition (FAT16) and a small
| > primary partition to allow booting into multiple operating systems.
| >
| snip snip - since Netscape complains
| > Anybody got any clues as to what happened?
| >
| > Cheers
| >
| > Ian
| >
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