Hard disk testing stuff -- specifically badblocks

[Bill Seymour]

>From article <11195 at s.ms.uky.edu:, by david at ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae):
: A question for the assembled masses, one which I don't know a proper
: newsgroup in which to post the question.
: 
: Short version:  [Deleted]
: Long version:   [Mostly deleted]
: 
: I have a hard disk which I'm trying to use on an Amiga 2000.  (It's one
: of those CDC Wren II's which the guy in Albany is selling).  I have an
: 2090A controllor board and the standard Amiga DOS software for PREP'ing
: and FORMAT'ing disks.  The problem is that during the format the
: machine hangs at Cyl 101 in a way which makes me think it's a bad
: block. 

	You could laways find someone with one of the other SCSI controllers
for the Amiga that *does* have a real low-level formatting routine... I
know that the 2090 doesn't yet. Where you might run into problems is if
the Wren II has a different method for handling bad blocks than other
controllers... If the Wren II is compatible with one of the other supported
drives, you should be able to do a real clean format. I use the Supra on
my system, and there are about 20-30 drive/controller combos supported
with a very good low-level format routine.

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