BARTHELEMY-O@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Olivier Barthelemy) (03/01/90)
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. Does anyone know how it can be done. Thanks for any help. Olivier. Barthelemy-o@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu
jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) (03/01/90)
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. > Spinrite II should work without disabling the cache. The product announcement says "SpinRite II operates with high-performance hard disk controllers which employ full-track buffering. These buffers do not need to be disabled when using SpinRite II." I use Spinrite II on my WD1006VMM2 controller and ST4096 hard disk with no problems. -- John Dudeck "You want to read the code closely..." jdudeck@Polyslo.CalPoly.Edu -- C. Staley, in OS course, teaching ESL: 62013975 Tel: 805-545-9549 Tanenbaum's MINIX operating system.
phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai) (03/02/90)
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.
trent@uncecs.edu (Glenn Jordan) (03/02/90)
The _original_ Spinrite will work fine on a WD1006V-SR2 controlled hard-disk, right folks? The caching that needs to be disabled for Spinrite is only the processor implemented caching you would get with a software cache. Not the on board track cache used to make 1-to-1 interleave possible...