todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) (01/14/91)
My dad recenctly had to reformat his hard drive after it crashed. When he tried, he got the following error: Winchester: Error during disk format: Response = 4 Any clues as to what error 4 is? -- Todd Day | todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us | ucsbcsl!ivucsb!todd
dt@yenta.alb.nm.us (David B. Thomas) (01/15/91)
todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) writes: >My dad recenctly had to reformat his hard drive after >it crashed. When he tried, he got the following error: >Winchester: Error during disk format: Response = 4 You are seeing the (hex) contents of the error register of the disk controller chip: Bit 7: Bad Block Detect Bit 6: CRC Error Bit 5: Not used Bit 4: ID not found Bit 3: Not used Bit 2: Aborted command Bit 1: Track zero error Bit 0: Data address mark not found So response = 4 means Aborted command, and response = 10 would mean ID not found. little david -- Computer interfaces and user interfaces are as different as night and 1.