IDE knowledge anyone?

[Chuck Guzis]

On 12/11/2015 01:26 PM, Oliver Lehmann wrote:

> I now tried something different. I issued a "format track command"
> and sent 512 bytes afterwards as described in the ata spec. The drive
> does not respond with an error, and when I read the sector buffer
> right afterwards, it contains the exact data I transfered after I
> issued the format track command.


Okay, this is not getting results.  I believe that a long way back in 
the thread that you said that only one drive make+model exhibited this 
issue--other drives worked fine.

Right now, I can't find the post where you specified the drive.  Who 
knows--I might have one.

--Chuck