30 May
2007
30 May
'07
9:52 p.m.
Does anyone have them?
I have a WDXT-150 board with a WD93024 drive. I suspect that the
drive is dead, as it doesn't do anything, including spinning up, but I'd
like to be able to run diags on it if any exist.
Doc
31 May
31 May
10:38 a.m.
I have a WDXT-150 board with a WD93024 drive. I
suspect that the drive
is dead, as it doesn't do anything, including spinning up, but I'd like to
be able to run diags on it if any exist.
If I'm not mistaken, this is a XT drive. Have you tried entering DEBUG
and using G=C800:5 ?
3:15 p.m.
--- Alexandre Souza <alexandre-listas at e-secure.com.br>
wrote:
But that's effective in performing a low-level
format, no? Of this I'm pretty sure. If it's an oldie
(apparently) then fine. But with *newer* drives, and I
don't know how new, you'll lose skew rates or whatever
if you perform a ll format. You won't damage the
drive, as is often said, but you'll lose some
efficiency I guess.
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I have a
WDXT-150 board with a WD93024 drive. I
suspect that the drive
is dead, as it doesn't do anything, including
spinning up, but I'd like to
be able to run diags on it if any exist.
If I'm not mistaken, this is a XT drive. Have
you tried entering DEBUG
and using G=C800:5 ?
1 Jun
1 Jun
4:35 a.m.
But that's effective in performing a low-level
format, no? Of this I'm pretty sure. If it's an oldie
(apparently) then fine. But with *newer* drives, and I
don't know how new, you'll lose skew rates or whatever
if you perform a ll format. You won't damage the
drive, as is often said, but you'll lose some
efficiency I guess.
"Moroless". I remember some WD and Seagate controllers had more than
just a low level formatter. I'm quite sure (although I don't see that in
more than 10 years) that some seagate cards had a big menu with options like
changing interleave, finding best interleave, low level format, surface test
et al. Maybe I'm mistaken, who knows? :oP
8:15 a.m.
Alexandre Souza wrote:
The owner's manual for the WDXT150 mentions "installing the software
for the adapter", but nothing more specific than that. Mostly I want to
know "how do I specify CHS geometry?"
Oh, and can I use a CF adapter....
Doc
But that's
effective in performing a low-level
format, no? Of this I'm pretty sure. If it's an oldie
(apparently) then fine. But with *newer* drives, and I
don't know how new, you'll lose skew rates or whatever
if you perform a ll format. You won't damage the
drive, as is often said, but you'll lose some
efficiency I guess.
"Moroless". I remember some WD and Seagate controllers had more than
just a low level formatter. I'm quite sure (although I don't see that in
more than 10 years) that some seagate cards had a big menu with options
like changing interleave, finding best interleave, low level format,
surface test et al. Maybe I'm mistaken, who knows? :oP 
9:33 a.m.
Sorry
In my mention of Speedstor, the warning about inappropriate unmarking of
bad sectors is a fault of some versions of SPINRITE, not SPEEDSTOR.
unrefreshed wetware dynamic RAM is not reliable.
9:26 a.m.
> But that's effective in performing a
low-level
> format, no? Of this I'm pretty sure. If it's an oldie
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Alexandre Souza wrote:
"Moroless". I remember some WD and
Seagate controllers had more than
just a low level formatter. I'm quite sure (although I don't see that in
more than 10 years) that some seagate cards had a big menu with options like
changing interleave, finding best interleave, low level format, surface test
et al. Maybe I'm mistaken, who knows? :oP
Speedstor was fairly good for low level formatting.
Watch out, though. There was a short period of time in which Steve
Gibson? made the defaults include restoring to use sectors that had been
marked bad, but that successfully formatted! That negated the
manufacturers' tests that had marked some sectors as being untrustworthy.
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