louis@philmtl.philips.ca (Louis Malette) (10/30/90)
Hi There,
I have a peculiar problem with my ESDI hard disk controller. I wonder
if somebody in the 'netland' has any experience with that.
Once in a while when I copy a large amount of file, I get some corruption.
I 'cannot' isolate the problem explicitely. Up to now, I was pointing to
the HD controller (please do not jump to conclusion).
Has anyone experienced that type of problem? I use a Adaptec ESDI controller
with different platform (286, 386 and 386SX).
Any advice/comment/info would be appreciated.
Kind Regards
Louis Malette
---> louis@philmtlkeithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) (11/03/90)
In article <1561@philmtl.philips.ca> louis@philmtl.philips.ca (Louis Malette) writes: >Hi There, >I have a peculiar problem with my ESDI hard disk controller. I wonder >if somebody in the 'netland' has any experience with that. > >Once in a while when I copy a large amount of file, I get some corruption. >I 'cannot' isolate the problem explicitely. A co-worker had identical problem with a large (XT3280?) Maxtor drive and the Adaptec controller. He gave me the drive. I reformatted it with fewer sectors/track (I think I used 52 - he'd been using 53) and I have never seen the problem. However, we were just discussing it, and he told me that he only saw the problem (almost literally "saw:" - he was copying display-image files) if the files were approximately 10 megabytes or greater. Most of my day-to-day use never even approaches this size file. Anyway - see if reformatting with fewer (52?) sectors/track has any effect. kEITHe