lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) (02/22/90)
In <14286@s.ms.uky.edu>, david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- a slipped disk) writes: >Ok, I'm formatting this new drive on my amiga (B2000 w/2090A) and I've >dutifully PREPed it and typed in this longish list of bad blocks. Some of >which are on the sticker on the drive, others are on a sheet of paper >included with the drive where the dealer had run some diagnostics .. > >Now I'm formatting.. (BTW, a Miniscribe 3053) and the drive is "stumbling" >at all the cylinders where there was bad blocks. > >So is format being **dumb** and not realizing looking at the bad block >table I spent all that time typing in? What you are hearing is the seek to the spare block cylinders near the end of the drive (actually the inner tracks, but you know what I mean). Some drives spare blocks in this way, some use spares on the same track or cylinder. So it isn't a stumble, really, it's the drive seeking to find the data in the block that was marked bad. -larry -- Gallium Arsenide is the technology of the future; always has been, always will be. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- a slipped disk) (02/23/90)
Ok, I'm formatting this new drive on my amiga (B2000 w/2090A) and I've
dutifully PREPed it and typed in this longish list of bad blocks. Some of
which are on the sticker on the drive, others are on a sheet of paper
included with the drive where the dealer had run some diagnostics ..
Now I'm formatting.. (BTW, a Miniscribe 3053) and the drive is "stumbling"
at all the cylinders where there was bad blocks.
So is format being **dumb** and not realizing looking at the bad block
table I spent all that time typing in?
Are the "offsets" off somehow?
Is format pickier than the manufacturer & dealer formatting tools?
The stumbling has happened both in the slow file system partition and the
normal-speed file system partition. (uknowwhatImean)
--
<- David Herron; an MMDF guy <david@ms.uky.edu>
<- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET
<-
<- Now arrived at a nameserver near you: david@davids.mmdf.com