tlbaltad@pacengr.UUCP (Tim Baltad) (08/09/89)
I'm pretty sure this has been asked before, but I can't remember the answer. Does anyone know of a format utility for hard drives that will map out bad sectors? We had a freak thunder/lightning stormi here in not-so-sunny CA and I am getting a R/W error on the HD. Thanks for any help. Tim
aleks@well.UUCP (Brian J. Witt) (08/14/89)
In article <262@pacengr.UUCP> tlbaltad@pacengr.UUCP (Tim Baltad) writes: >I'm pretty sure this has been asked before, but I can't remember the >answer. Does anyone know of a format utility for hard drives that >will map out bad sectors? We had a freak thunder/lightning stormi >here in not-so-sunny CA and I am getting a R/W error on the HD. > >Thanks for any help. >Tim Freak thunder in sunny CA... yeah, the rain was the best part... I had a crash on my hard disk during a rather bad time DEVCON. I recovered, and reformatted. Many of "bad sectors" that caused "R/W errors" went away. After searching the disk and noting the bad checksums in the blocks (dir and file), I've come to the conclusion that: AmigaDOS sez R/W error if *it's checksum is bad!!!! Since the checksum is there, I assume it's used. I haven't looked at the DOS code, so I'm not sure, but... Just back up the whole disk, reformat, and restore! Performance should increase (as files get straightened out) and disk errors should disappear. If you're using a SCSI device, the device should map out bad sectors if a format command reaches the hard-disk. If the format command doesn't reach the hard disk, force it! (If you have a micro-forge, I may be able to help a little) --- "You can accept money from the KGB and not necessarily be committing espionage." -- Attorney Joesph DiGenova (in Flex Bloch case) --- brian witt