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From: larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Disk error question
Message-ID: <1990Aug25.230246.9974@nstar.uucp>
Date: 25 Aug 90 23:02:46 GMT
References: <196@dumbcat.sf.ca.us>
Organization: Northern Star Communications, Ltd.
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marc@dumbcat.sf.ca.us (Marco S Hyman) writes:

>*** DEVICE ERROR: Uncorrectable data error in sector ***
>*** Controller 0 (Adaptec AHA-1540 SCSI Host Adapter), DISK Drive 1, Absolute Sector # 40205 ***

>*** DEVICE ERROR: Uncorrectable data error in sector ***
>*** Controller 0 (Adaptec AHA-1540 SCSI Host Adapter), DISK Drive 0, Absolute Sector # 15201 ***

Is it possible that your hard drive doesn't default to enabling the
automatic hard disk bad sector relocation?  I had a Miniscibe 9380S
which defaulted with this off which produced errors - as Miniscribe
in all their wisdom considered this to be enabled in the driver - not
in the drives firmware..

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