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From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: wanted: info on spinrite
Message-ID: <2429@skinner.nprdc.arpa>
Date: 13 Jun 89 15:52:49 GMT
References: <1551GOLDSTN@MAINE> <2072@randvax.UUCP> <4582@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego
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In article <4582@ttidca.TTI.COM> moss@ttidcb.tti.com (Les Moss) writes:
>Also be aware that SpinRite does not work on buffered (1:1 interleave)
>disk controllers like the WD1006 series.

Nor will it work on the PerStor ARLL controllers, which apparently
have a table in their ROM to translate an interleave number from the
value passed by the 'format track' code to the value actually handed
to the controller.

Disk Technician also fails with the PerStor boards, which is where I
found out about it (a friend of mine worked for the company that makes
Disk Technician for a time, and got the information from the head of
the programming department).


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