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- Date: September 9, 1986
- Number: 149
-
- Title: COMPSURF Bug Fixes and Enhancements
-
- The latest version of COMPSURF (for Advanced NetWare 86 2.0X and
- Advanced NetWare 286 2.0X) contains the following bug fixes and
- enhancements:
-
- 1.A problem existed in COMPSURF's comprehensive test which
- could have corrupted the bad block table. This problem only
- occurred with drives larger than 50 MB. One configuration that
- exhibited the problem was the Maxtor XT-1140 running as an
- IBM AT internal drive. This problem has now been eliminated.
-
- 2.The 8 MHz IBM AT has the capability of using drives of type 16
- - 255. The previous version of COMPSURF displayed a drive in
- this range as type 15. This was only a cosmetic inconvenience
- and did not effect the operation of the program; but the
- problem has been fixed in the new version.
-
- 3.Previously, when the bad block cylinder and head locations were
- hand entered from the factory-reported bad block list,
- COMPSURF would identify two blocks per cylinder and head
- location as being bad. Now, COMPSURF identifies three blocks
- per cylinder and head location as being bad. This will help in
- more accurately using the factory-reported media defect
- information.
-
- 4.To do Read/Write tests, COMPSURF generates character patterns
- that can be used to identify variations in the media. The
- method in which character patterns are generated has been
- improved. This should help the new COMPSURF to more easily
- and quickly detect marginal areas of the disk.
-
- The new COMPSURF programs are only available for Advanced
- NetWare 86 and Advanced NetWare 286 versions. They are called
- "COMP86.EXE" and "COMP286.EXE" respectively and are located on
- "NetWire" for your convenience.
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