[comp.sys.amiga.hardware] Hard Drive finds _lots_ of bad blocks

dylan@cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee) (10/01/90)

I just hooked up a new Maxtor LXT-100 100MB drive to my 2091, as a 
second drive (Next to the Quantum40S).  I did all the resistor termination
stuff, set up and installation.  Now I seem to be running into some
problems.  

Verify data on drive finds no errors when the disk is 
blank.  If I write data to the disk, (the World Data Bank files are
great for filling a hard drive)  and then verify data, the drive
reports errors on various blocks (seemingly, the blocks with data).
There is no pattern (head number, cylinder, etc) to the errors, that
I can tell.

I set "supports reselection" to no on both drives, and the cableing
is a simple daisy chain.  Has anyone seen similar problems?  Should
I return the drive as DOA?

thanks,
dylan
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