870646c@aucs.AcadiaU.ca (Barry Comer) (03/02/91)
Does anyone know if the format done by xenix during installation will screw up the low level information that exists on IDE drives? later Barry Comer
drolet@drolet.CAM.ORG (Jean-Jacques Drolet) (03/04/91)
In <1991Mar1.180233.5808@aucs.AcadiaU.ca> 870646c@aucs.AcadiaU.ca (Barry Comer) writes: >Does anyone know if the format done by xenix during installation will >screw up the low level information that exists on IDE drives? >later >Barry Comer I have Xenix System V installed on a 180-MB IDE Itama hard disk drive, and everything works fine. -- Jean-Jacques Drolet | Snail: 2631 boul. Liegeois, Sainte-Foy National Optics Institute | Quebec, Canada, G1W 1Z5 Phone: +1 418 657 7006 | Internet: drolet@drolet.CAM.ORG Home phone: +1 418 651 3796 | UUCP: uunet!altitude!drolet!drolet
root@sporty.UUCP (Super STUD) (03/08/91)
In article <1991Mar4.004458.12492@drolet.CAM.ORG> drolet@drolet.CAM.ORG (Jean-Jacques Drolet) writes: >In <1991Mar1.180233.5808@aucs.AcadiaU.ca> 870646c@aucs.AcadiaU.ca (Barry Comer) writes: > >>Does anyone know if the format done by xenix during installation will >>screw up the low level information that exists on IDE drives? >>later >>Barry Comer > >I have Xenix System V installed on a 180-MB IDE Itama hard disk drive, and >everything works fine. I installed an IDE drive. I selected a destructive scan (wont hurt, nothing on the drive, eh?). WRONG The system worked for a bout 24 hours before I started getting tons of errors on the hard drive. I had to install a new HD. DO NOT SELECT DESTRUCTIVE SCAN. You can, however, scan non-destructively.
root@crash.cts.com (Bill Blue) (03/09/91)
In <287@sporty.UUCP> root@sporty.UUCP (Super STUD) writes: }In article <1991Mar4.004458.12492@drolet.CAM.ORG> drolet@drolet.CAM.ORG (Jean-Jacques Drolet) writes: }>In <1991Mar1.180233.5808@aucs.AcadiaU.ca> 870646c@aucs.AcadiaU.ca (Barry Comer) writes: }> }>>Does anyone know if the format done by xenix during installation will }>>screw up the low level information that exists on IDE drives? }>>later }>>Barry Comer }> }>I have Xenix System V installed on a 180-MB IDE Itama hard disk drive, and }>everything works fine. } }I installed an IDE drive. I selected a destructive scan (wont hurt, nothing }on the drive, eh?). WRONG The system worked for a bout 24 hours before I }started getting tons of errors on the hard drive. I had to install a new HD. } }DO NOT SELECT DESTRUCTIVE SCAN. You can, however, scan non-destructively. Don't be silly. None of Xenix's high-level operations, including destructive scan, have any impact on the lowest level formatting of the drive. You should always scan destructively on a new drive to make sure you catch all possible bad blocks. If your hard drive failed after 24 hours, it was because it was bad, period. Not because you selected destructive scan. --Bill
n025fc@tamuts.tamu.edu (Kevin Weller) (03/09/91)
In article <287@sporty.UUCP> root@sporty.UUCP (Super STUD) writes: > I installed an IDE drive. I selected a destructive scan (wont hurt, nothing > on the drive, eh?). WRONG The system worked for a bout 24 hours before I > started getting tons of errors on the hard drive. I had to install a new HD. > > DO NOT SELECT DESTRUCTIVE SCAN. You can, however, scan non-destructively. I think you had a bad hard drive. I've used the destructive scan several times (bought first disk, reorganized partitions once, bought second disk), and I've had no problems. I'm using Conner CP-3204 and Conner CP-3104 IDE drives. -- Kev -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kevin L. Weller /-------+--------------------\ internet: n025fc@tamuts.tamu.edu | aTm | GIG 'EM, AGGIES! | CIS: 73327,1447 (but I rarely log on) \-------+--------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ %SYS-E-BADOPSYS, Fatal system error, DEC VMS halting / "And now for something -SYS-I-GETUNIX, Replace with UNIX immediately! / completely different." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Monty Python