Disk error question

[Larry Snyder]

marc at dumbcat.sf.ca.us (Marco S Hyman) writes:

>*** DEVICE ERROR: Uncorrectable data error in sector ***
>*** Controller 0 (Adaptec AHA-1540 SCSI Host Adapter), DISK Drive 1, Absolute Sector # 40205 ***

>*** DEVICE ERROR: Uncorrectable data error in sector ***
>*** Controller 0 (Adaptec AHA-1540 SCSI Host Adapter), DISK Drive 0, Absolute Sector # 15201 ***

Is it possible that your hard drive doesn't default to enabling the
automatic hard disk bad sector relocation?  I had a Miniscibe 9380S
which defaulted with this off which produced errors - as Miniscribe
in all their wisdom considered this to be enabled in the driver - not
in the drives firmware..

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