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Article #508Re: Low Level Format of IDE - bad idea?
From: Steve Mann in San Jose, CA
Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 00:00
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Kevin@Computer.com wrote: : I ran DM and did its low level format, and ran all their tests. The : drive looked great. I doublespaced it also. Everything looked : *perfect*. This was last night. Got up this morning and it booted just : fine - but a later soft boot failed. In fact every soft boot fails. The : drive seems dead! More dead than before even. Occassionally a cold boot : will revive the drive and it works perfectly. It seems random. There : are no files on the drive. It is drive D: and the doublespaced new : drive is F:. The drive is probably old enough that it doesn't have temperature compensation. Turn it on, and leave it on. (Hard drives never turned off tend to run forever.) After it's good and hot, go through the procedure again. -- Stephen Mann <smann@rahul.net>
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 111b8f,649a127ebe34c3bc X-Google-Attributes: gid111b8f,public X-Google-Thread: f4d7c,649a127ebe34c3bc X-Google-Attributes: gidf4d7c,public From: smann@rahul.net (Steve Mann in San Jose, CA) Subject: Re: Low Level Format of IDE - bad idea? Date: 1995/05/11 Message-ID: <3otva1$7tu@hustle.rahul.net> X-Deja-AN: 102445312 references: <3oiseq$iul@hustle.rahul.net> <3ok71a$o94@hustle.rahul.net> <3old3q$3ki@progress.progress.com> <3or45k$srr@hustle.rahul.net> <3otlle$ibu@hustle.rahul.net> organization: a2i network nntp-posting-user: smann newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,a2i.general