Hard Disk formatting error on UNIXPC
David B. Thomas
dt at yenta.alb.nm.us
Tue Jan 15 04:47:12 AEST 1991
todd at ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) writes:
>My dad recenctly had to reformat his hard drive after
>it crashed. When he tried, he got the following error:
>Winchester: Error during disk format: Response = 4
You are seeing the (hex) contents of the error register of the
disk controller chip:
Bit 7: Bad Block Detect
Bit 6: CRC Error
Bit 5: Not used
Bit 4: ID not found
Bit 3: Not used
Bit 2: Aborted command
Bit 1: Track zero error
Bit 0: Data address mark not found
So response = 4 means Aborted command, and response = 10 would
mean ID not found.
little david
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