Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!uw-june!dylan
From: dylan@cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Hard Drive finds _lots_ of bad blocks
Message-ID: <13190@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 1 Oct 90 16:53:10 GMT
Reply-To: dylan@june.cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee)
Organization: University of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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I just hooked up a new Maxtor LXT-100 100MB drive to my 2091, as a 
second drive (Next to the Quantum40S).  I did all the resistor termination
stuff, set up and installation.  Now I seem to be running into some
problems.  

Verify data on drive finds no errors when the disk is 
blank.  If I write data to the disk, (the World Data Bank files are
great for filling a hard drive)  and then verify data, the drive
reports errors on various blocks (seemingly, the blocks with data).
There is no pattern (head number, cylinder, etc) to the errors, that
I can tell.

I set "supports reselection" to no on both drives, and the cableing
is a simple daisy chain.  Has anyone seen similar problems?  Should
I return the drive as DOA?

thanks,
dylan
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dylan mcnamee				"...I put the Mu in Mother Goose, 
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