dhf@tatum.mitre.org (David H. Friedman) (01/31/91)
. A week or so ago there was some discussion of Disk Technician, Advanced Edition, in which it was mentioned that DTA will work on sector-translating and other "funny" controllers. I'm posting this because I have a NEC 386/20 with ST251-1 HD formatted as a single 42Mb partition using a 1:1 interlace sector-translating controller. My logical sectors are 1024 bytes instead of the usual 512. When I ran Norton Utilities v5.0, the Calibrate utility told me it could not do a low-level format on my HD because of the sector translation. The other Norton programs (e.g., SpeeDisk) seem to work OK, but this still leaves me hanging as to how to do a low-level format when I get to the point where it's advisable. What I'm asking therefore is: Can anyone confirm whether DTA will in fact do surface checking, low-level format, etc. on a sector-translated disk, and if so, which version of the program has this capability? And while I'm on the subject, can anyone offer advice on which other disk maintainers (Spinrite, OpTune, etc.) can cope with sector-translating controllers? Thanks in advance from dhf@limus.mitre.org (David H. Friedman)
brad@huey.Jpl.Nasa.GOV (Brad Hines) (02/01/91)
In article <1991Jan30.195234.29253@linus.mitre.org>, dhf@tatum.mitre.org (David H. Friedman) writes: |> . A week or so ago there was some discussion of Disk Technician, Advanced |> Edition, in which it was mentioned that DTA will work on sector-translating |> and other "funny" controllers. I'm the original poster of the request for information on Disk Technician Advanced, but unfortunately, the chunk of net-news with this discussion in it seems to have never made it to our site. Did anyone keep a summary that they could e-mail to me? Thanks, and sorry about the bother... -- Brad Hines Internet: brad@huey.jpl.nasa.gov Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, California