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Article #19484do SCSI drives revector?
From: srheintze
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 00:28
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 00:28
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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
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!boulder!happy.colorado.edu!srheintze From: srheintze@happy.colorado.edu Subject: do SCSI drives revector? Message-ID: <1993Jan8.182821.1@happy.colorado.edu> Lines: 26 Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet) Nntp-Posting-Host: happy.uccs.edu Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Date: 8 Jan 93 18:28:21 MDT Lines: 26