sguerke@brahms.udel.edu (Stephen Guerke) (05/15/91)
I'm sure this has been asked before....but...
One of our faculty members has an IDE drive that is giving him bad
sector readings. He is going to run Norton 5.0 Disk Doctor on it to
mark the bad sectors, however the Norton Calibrate program, which sets
the interleave and will do a low level format, will not work on an IDE
drive. Is there a low level format program available, that will work
on and IDE? Any suggestions and recommendations will be gratefully
appreciated. ( I don't know the brand or model of the drive, if that
is necessary info I can get it and post.)
Thanks
Steve
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Stephen Guerke, Coord. Computer Resources sguerke@brahms.udel.edu
University of Delaware Parallel Program stephen.guerke@mvs.udel.edu
Georgetown, DE 19947 ILV20078@UDELVM.UDEL.EDUdj@ctron.com (DJ Delorie) (05/15/91)
In article <21399@brahms.udel.edu>, sguerke@brahms.udel.edu (Stephen Guerke) writes: > One of our faculty members has an IDE drive that is giving him bad > sector readings. He is going to run Norton 5.0 Disk Doctor on it to > mark the bad sectors, however the Norton Calibrate program, which sets > the interleave and will do a low level format, will not work on an IDE > drive. Is there a low level format program available, that will work > on and IDE? Any suggestions and recommendations will be gratefully > appreciated. ( I don't know the brand or model of the drive, if that > is necessary info I can get it and post.) According to Conner Peripherals engineers, IDE drives ignore the format command, for whatever reasons. The only way to format them for sure is to have the funky hardware that talks to the drive through the connector at the front, and convince it that it was just assembled. The drive will then go through a 72-hour initial self test, during which it will reformat the drive. DJ dj@ctron.com
vwp@cbnewsk.att.com (mark.a.skala) (05/17/91)
>>> Is there a low level format program available, that will work >>> on and IDE? > >USE SPINRITE! it will solve your problem. > >-- >Lance Bledsoe Off: (512) 343-1111 >Pencom Software, Inc. Fax (512) 343-9650 >9050 Loop 360 N. Suite 300 UUCP: cs.utexas.edu!pensoft!lwb >Austin, Texas 78759 UUNET: uunet!uudell!pensoft!lwb Wrong. I too have been looking for something like this. Mark A. Skala "Sleep is so boring I can hardly stay awake through it." vwp@cbnewsk.att.com 508-960-4208 (work)