ccoprdg@prism.gatech.EDU (Drew Gonczi) (06/05/91)
I have a poor little Tandy 1000 TX that I'm trying to fix up for my dad. I was foolish (when I owned and used the computer) to purchase the Tandy 21meg hard card. It's a Western Digital Hard drive and a WD 8 bit controller card. The problem with the HD is that CYL 508 H 1 is bad, but the card's llformat routine (debug...g=c800:5...etc) never marks this track as bad. I need to know where I can get a llformat program in which I can specify bad tracks. Tandy hasn't been any help since my computer is over 2 years old. Anyway it's a WD 614 cyl 4 head drive. If any of you could help, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks... -- Drew Gonczi | "Blood follows blood and we make sure Georgia Institute of Technology | Life ain't for you and we're the cure" Atlanta, GA 30313 | Damage Inc. ARPA: ccoprdg@prism.gatech.edu | Metallica
barnett@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Karey Barnett) (06/07/91)
In article <30644@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccoprdg@prism.gatech.EDU (Drew Gonczi) writes: > > I have a poor little Tandy 1000 TX that I'm trying to fix up for my >dad. I was foolish (when I owned and used the computer) to purchase the >Tandy 21meg hard card. > > It's a Western Digital Hard drive and a WD 8 bit controller card. >The problem with the HD is that CYL 508 H 1 is bad, but the card's >llformat routine (debug...g=c800:5...etc) never marks this track as bad. >I need to know where I can get a llformat program in which I can specify >bad tracks. > One question, how did you know that the cylinder was bad? I'm not sure, but if the cylinder is really physically bad, then the llformatter should have detected it. As I reread your message, I could be misinterpreting you. Are you saying that the llformatter detects the cylinder as being bad but doesn't mark it bad?