19 Jul
2014
19 Jul
'14
5 a.m.
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 08:51:55PM -0700, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, David Gesswein wrote:
MFM. Machine is a Compaq portable plus.
I'm looking for a program that runs under
DOS 3.1 and will tell me
CHS for all unreadable hard disk sectors.
Anybody know where one is I can download? I can't find search keywords
that filters out the modern stuff. A read write test would also be useful.
Depends on the type of drive.
Are you talking about "MFM" (ST506/412), or are you talking about
SATA/PATA/USB, multi-gig, multi-terabytes, etc?
Back in those days, the usual programs for testing
hard drives, and
finding bad tracks were SpeedStor and SpinRite. DO NOT use old versions
of SpinRite with a [default] setting of "return to service anything that
tests good" - if the manufacturer of the drive says that a given track
can't be trusted, then I don't think that a single successful test by the
program over-rides that!
SpinRite quick surface scan is just telling me which were flagged bad but
not which currently can't be read. The full test may but if it doesn't
the information I'm looking for will be changed.
I'll try speedstor.