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In article <5307@pdxgate.UUCP> h2co@odin.cc.pdx.edu (Candace O'Connor) writes:
>ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Apr04.220959.1299@crash.cts.com> jimf@pro-woolf.cts.com (Jim Frost) writes:
>>
>>>Check out SpinRite, low-level format without having to backup the hard
>>>drive.
>>
>>It doesn't work with IDE's. Or with SCSI's or anything that does
>>sector translation. For the older MFM and RLL drives its great!
>
>Sorry, but SpinRite is not "great" for older RLL drives.  Quoting from the
>SpinRite ver 2.0 manual (pg 14):

>
>"SpinRite may wisely refuse to perform actual low-level formatting on a
>hard disk.  This most frequently occurs when RLL formatting has been
>used to create 26 sectors per track even though the disk controller
>reports having only an MFM formatted sector count of 17."
>
>One of my computers fits this description. SpinRite would indeed not do
>a low-level format of this disk.  


Note I did say something about sector translation above 9-)

Many RLL controllers don't translate sectors. The WD controller on
my Kalok 30 Megger doesn't and Spinrite works just great.







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