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From: krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Dwarf Disk Drives
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Date: 28 Aug 90 13:32:37 GMT
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If DEX is running ok, then the drive/controller/CPU combination is probably
ok. (assuming you ran the WIN test on the full drive with writes enabled --
the default is read-only). If a full DEX WIN test succeeds, then run
EX FBS (find bad spots), which will not only create a new bad spot list
on the disk (ala INVOL option 7), but it also exercise the drive and enter
the location of any bad blocks it finds in the bad spot list. If you have
the manufacturer's bad block list, you can enter it by hand in addition to
(or instead of) running FBS. If all this (DEX, FBS, INVOL) work ok and
the self-test still fails, then I would look to an out of date boot PROM
on the CPU motherboard.


 -- David Krowitz

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