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- From: hoppie@kub.nl (Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers)
- Subject: IDE drive killed by cntrlr -- solution?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.130553.25595@kub.nl>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 13:05:53 GMT
- Organization: Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
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- Hello world,
-
- Last week my 100MB Kalok IDE disk went berzerk: immediately after I
- pressed RESET, the disk gave two loud CLANKs and a lot of other noise.
- After that, it reports lots of errors. With re-partitioning and
- (high-level) formats, I can see that the sore spots are widely
- scattered over the surfaces and apparently not related to one
- particular head.
-
- Assuming that sector translation does not fool me :-) I tend to
- think that the hardware is okay, but that the controller on the drive
- steered the head assembly over the platters while still writing
- or so. Thereby it destroyed some data, and... (you feel it coming):
- it destroyed the low-level information on some places as well.
-
- A) Can this be the case: a controller going crazy that wipes out
- low level information?
-
- B) If so, can this be solved by a new low-level format? I know,
- chances are high that I cannot do this myself, but should the
- manufacturer be able to do it?
-
- Since the original dealer went bankrupt last September :-( I cannot
- simply return the drive to get a new one. A related company tells
- me just to low-level it because they seem to remember that Kalok
- drives can handle this. Right???
-
- Any comment appreciated.
-
-
-
- Jeroen
-
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- Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers, research engineer at | Stop connecting computers;
- Infolab, Tilburg University, The Netherlands | start connecting people!
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