7 Sep
2012
7 Sep
'12
12:48 p.m.
On 7 Sep 2012 at 20:37, Jochen Kunz wrote:
Hokay, exactly how will this predict failures? Note that the ST238N
is an early drive and has a very limited command vocabulary--pretty
much 6-byte CDBs.
--Chuck
So this will
diagnose problems with an Seagate ST238N connected to
an ST-01 controller? (We are talking classic computers here).
Sure. If you put it
into a classic computer, that runs a Unix OS and
has apropriate device drivers for the ST-01. Though, I'd skip the
ST-01 alltogether and use a SPARCstation 1. SunOS 4 is an environement
where sformat feels very happy, as its roots go back to SunOS 3 on Sun
3 hardware. You can even use it to exercise SMD disks of that era. --