Re: How to recover a half-formatted SCSI hard disk?

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From: John Woods
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 00:00

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sysnet@cc.newcastle.edu.au (David Morrison) writes:
>I had a power glitch the other day while formatting a SCSI hard disk. Since 
>then, none of the formatters I have will touch it. They say that the drive is 
>not ready,  even though they have managed to find out that it is a Conner 
>200MB hard disk.
>Can I do anything with the disk? Or is it destined for the junk bin :-(

Oops.  Presumably it formats the entire disk, THEN rewrites the microcode
onto the reserved section.  Not a very conservative design.

The drive will have to be reformatted by the factory.

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From: jfw@proteon.com (John Woods)
Subject: Re: How to recover a half-formatted SCSI hard disk?
Date: 1995/07/24
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