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From: klee@cs.ubc.ca (Kenneth Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: SpinRite II
Keywords: SpinRite II
Message-ID: <6263@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 90 07:54:17 GMT
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Reply-To: klee@cs.ubc.ca (Kenneth Lee)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Well, I've just acquired a copy of SpinRite II and have been unable
to use it.  When I select either "Quick Surface Scan" or "Begin SpinRite
Analysis", SpinRite II successfully performs tests on the system RAM, the
disk controller, and the controller RAM.  However, the test for disk
caching never completes, even after 1 hour.  This is true even after
slowing my system clock down to 8 MHz.

My system is a local 20 MHz 386 clone with a AMI BIOS, a DTC 7280 Rev. A
combined floppy and hard disk controller, and a Miniscribe 3085 hard disk.  

What I would like to know is whether anyone in netland has encountered
similar problems using SpinRite II.  Even better, if someone has managed
to get SpinRite II work on the same controller and disk combination
please let me know.

I will be calling Gibson Research Corporation's Tech Support, but from 
the articles that I've read about SpinRite, I'm not very optimistic about
getting through. :-(

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