chaim@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Chaim Dworkin) (01/12/91)
About a week ago I destroyed one of my DOS partitions with Spinrite II. I'm running a Seagate ST-251 partitioned with Ontrack's Disk Manager into two drives, one running from cylinder 0-613, and the second running from cylinder 614-818. After calling Gibson (manufacturer of Spinrite) and discussing the problem with them, their tech support person concluded that Spinrite was unable to determine where my first partition ended and the second began. So Spinrite simply continued formatting after reaching cylinder 613. The problem appears to be specific to a disk partitioned exactly the way mine is. They were very good about it and are writing a fixed version of their software which can better determine what Ontrack's DM is doing. I'm interested in knowing if anyone else has had any experience in using Spinrite on a hard disk larger than 32 Mb which was partitioned with Ontrack's Disk Manager. Did it work properly? Thanks. -- Chaim Dworkin (chaim@eniac.seas.upenn.edu)
system@infopls.chi.il.us (SYSOP) (01/15/91)
chaim@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Chaim Dworkin) writes: > I'm interested in knowing if anyone else has had any experience in > using Spinrite on a hard disk larger than 32 Mb which was partitioned > with Ontrack's Disk Manager. Did it work properly? > I used it on an AT at work that had an ST-4096 in it (80MB. The computer was a 6MHZ IBM AT!!) It was partitioned as 1 10M and 2 32M (Some space lost due to the fact that the BIOS was told the drive had 7 heads, when it has 9. The DOS partition [10M] lost room due to this.) To use Spinrite, I booted a floppy WITH DM on it to do the 2 32M partitions. I booted a floppy WITHOUT DM to do the 10M DOS partition (Spinrite complained that the CMOS was wrong, which was sort-of correct.) --------------- Andrew Rossmann | Sysop of Infoplus BBS, +1 708 537 0247 andyross@infopls.chi.il.us | Infoplus Support, latest version available ..!uunet!ddsw1!infopls!system| by logging in as infoplus.