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From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: PERSTOR Controller Review (ADRT = 190% !!)
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Date: 21 Aug 90 18:48:16 GMT
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In article <9177@skinner.nprdc.arpa> malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy) writes:
>
>Most low-level disk utilities will not work correctly with the PerStor
>controllers, probably because they are not set up to handle 31-sector
>tracks. For example, IAU, a program that will re-interleave your hard
>disk for best performance with the data in place, will hum along
>thinking it's working, but _will_ trash the disk. Fortunately, when I
>did this, I had taken the precaution of making a brand new backup just
>before I started.

Ooops.  I meant to talk about this in my original post, but it got lost.

Yah.. even things like DM, SPEDSTOR, IAU etc.. ALL of which claim to handle
any number of sectors.. none of these can format with this controller installed.

The documentation even mentions this point.  But it's not like one need to do
a low level format daily :).
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