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Article #43400Re: WD cache HD controller disable
From: Phil Ngai
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 1990 17:36
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 1990 17:36
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In article <25ec7864.2f4@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) writes:
|In article <12570040897043@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu> BARTHELEMY-O@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Olivier Barthelemy) writes:
|>Hi. I just got a new WD cache HD controller. Since my hard disk has
|>some problems , I need to reformat it. I planned on using Spinrite,
|>but to do so I have to disable the cache.
|
|I use Spinrite II on my WD1006VMM2 controller and ST4096 hard disk with no
|problems.
I'll second that. I use SRII on my WD1006V-SR2 and ST-4096 with no
problems either. Nearly 800 Kbytes throughput! Yes, this is running
RLL on an MFM drive. Please don't call the MFM police.
--
Phil Ngai, phil@amd.com {uunet,decwrl,ucbvax}!amdcad!phil
A PC without DESQview is like Unix without ^Z.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!amdcad!pepsi!phil From: phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: WD cache HD controller disable Keywords: Hard disk, controller, western digital, help Message-ID: <29333@amdcad.AMD.COM> Date: 1 Mar 90 17:36:15 GMT References: <12570040897043@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <25ec7864.2f4@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> Sender: news@amdcad.AMD.COM Reply-To: phil@pepsi.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Sunnyvale CA Lines: 16