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From: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ****  RUSH **** ESDI controller problem
Keywords: ESDI Adpatec Hard Disk Controller
Message-ID: <8374@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 2 Nov 90 23:24:04 GMT
References: <15990@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1561@philmtl.philips.ca>
Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <1561@philmtl.philips.ca> louis@philmtl.philips.ca (Louis Malette) writes:
>Hi There,
>I have a peculiar problem with my ESDI hard disk controller.  I wonder
>if somebody in the 'netland' has any experience with that.
>
>Once in a while when I copy a large amount of file, I get some corruption.
>I 'cannot' isolate the problem explicitely.  

A co-worker had identical problem with a large (XT3280?) Maxtor drive
and the Adaptec controller.  He gave me the drive.  I reformatted it
with fewer sectors/track (I think I used 52 - he'd been using 53) and I
have never seen the problem.  However, we were just discussing it, and
he told me that he only saw the problem (almost literally "saw:" - he was
copying display-image files) if the files were approximately 10
megabytes or greater.  Most of my day-to-day use never even approaches
this size file.

Anyway - see if reformatting with fewer (52?) sectors/track has any
effect.

kEITHe