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From: rjn@hpfcso.HP.COM (Bob Niland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: 9133D hard disk drive failure.
Message-ID: <7370274@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 8 Jan 91 22:14:11 GMT
References: <1991Jan8.161027.4353@odi.com>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard/FSY Ft.Collins,CO,USA
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re: > ...9133D 720K floppy/ 14 MB disk.

> ...but the hard disk now returns garbage from reads (no errors, just bogus
> data) and reports "Media Error" when I try to do a DOS format on it.

> Any clues?  I suspect I may need to do a low-level format on the drive;
> any idea how I go about doing that?

Hook it up to an HP 9000 Series 200, 300 or 400 system, under the BASIC,
Pascal or HP-UX operating systems.  Perform a "mediainit" operation
("INITIALIZE" in BASIC).

Regards,                                              Hewlett-Packard
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