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From: rsutc@fornax.UUCP (Rick Sutcliffe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: dead hard drive
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Date: 15 Nov 90 21:05:39 GMT
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Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
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I have a dead 160M DPI drive about 1 1/2 years old.  I believe the mechanism
is a Seagate.  It cannot be formatted by the OEM formatter because the 
media is apparently bad in the extent file.  That is, I need to do a new low
level format.  This is commonly done in the IBM world, but I have never heard
tell of a SCSI low level formatter loose in the real world outside the
manufacturers.  Can anybody point me to an appropriate utility for this task.
(BTW, I have hacked this thing pretty well; I assure you it really is dead.  The
formatter burps once and hangs without getting anywhere, and of course an
initialize is also hopeless in this state.)


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