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From: wargopl@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Peter L. Wargo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: HD with *no* hard error info
Message-ID: <1990May3.211454.12523@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 3 May 90 21:14:54 GMT
References: <5190089@hplsla.HP.COM>
Sender: wargopl@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Peter L. Wargo)
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From article <5190089@hplsla.HP.COM>, by kens@hplsla.HP.COM (Ken Snyder):
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>>   Or is this merely a lucky HD with no hard errors. Thanks in advance
>> for your replies.
>> 
>     I've had 2 Miniscribe 3180E's with NO bad sectors/tracks so I don't think
> it's that uncommon.  In fact, when I got the third drive with 23 bad sectors
> on it I was concerned I got a defective disc.  If you have the Norton Utilities
> and use the SD utility the bad sectors will show up in the map marked "B".  If
> there are none, there won't be any "B"s.

Or, you can use spinrite from Gibson Research.  Not only will it correct
a bad interleve, it will also do a *very* effective scrubbing of the disk,
marking sectors bad, or unmarking them if they pass the test.  It also
gets past the controller's "auto correct" routine, so it catches even
the smallest errors...

Nice Prog. for the price.

Pete

-- 
Peter L. Wargo - wargopl@sun.soe.clarkson.edu, amoung others...
"I don't believe it - I just spent 4 years at an expensive university-
 and I end up as a top-40 DJ..."