jng@m.cs.uiuc.edu (03/08/89)
Hi, Folks. I just bought a CompuAdd 286/12, everything works fine, but I found out that my Miniscribe hard disk has a defect list of 25 entry. So out of 1024 cyl with 5 heads, 25 of them will be mark as bad sector. Is that too high, or is this just normal. (I had a Miniscribe 43 Mb 25 ms HD) Any help will be appreciated, Thanks in advance. --Joseph Ng-- jng@m.cs.uiuc.edu jng%m.cs.uiuc.edu@uiucvmd.bitnet
jng@m.cs.uiuc.edu (03/08/89)
Through the chkdsk, I have a total of 256000 bytes in the bad sector. Is that bad?
cekuo@caen.engin.umich.edu (Chuin E Kuo) (03/10/89)
From article <8000040@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, by jng@m.cs.uiuc.edu: > > I found out that my Miniscribe hard disk has a defect list of 25 entry. > Is that too high, or is this just normal. (I had a Miniscribe 43 Mb 25 ms HD) I've heard that the most defects that the disk manufacturers will pass is 1 per Mbyte. So your disk is within manufacturers' spec for what that's worth. -- Chuin E Kuo | Murphy's Law of Thermodynamics: cekuo@caen.engin.umich.edu | Things get worse under pressure U of MI IOE student | U of T N Sigh survivor |