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From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.)
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Subject: Re: Disk timing
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Date: 26 Jan 91 02:03:13 GMT
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... sharris@brahms.udel.edu (Scott A Harris) writes:
>... ifar355@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang) writes:
>>... sharris@brahms.udel.edu (Scott A Harris) writes:

>>>Is there anyone out there that has/knows of a reliable disk speed checking
>>>program for 3.5' apple 800k disk drive.  Mine keeps eating my disks.
>>>Or is there maybe something else wrong?

>>>Thanks
>>>Scott A. Harris   sharris @ brahms.udel.edu   sharris @ chopin.udel.edu 

>>What do you mean by "eating my disks"? Does it write weird stuff, get read
>>errors, or what?

>When I say eating the disks I mean when I try to write to a disk it tells
>me that the disk may be damaged. Then I do a verify on the disk and it 
>gives me a list of 3 bad blocks, always the same blocks. It started as a
>random fluke, but now I am trying to backup my hard drive and 1 of every 2
>disks get the error.  I just today took the drive back to the place of 
>purchase and they said it is the timing thats off.  They charge $75 an hour
>and a $25 checkin fee,  I'd like to try to stay away from than.
>Anymore help would be greatly appreciated.

Okay, that clears part of it up.  With the wording of the original post,
it looked like you were saying the disk speed checking program was eating
your disks.  An ambiguous "mine" which was supposed to be referring to the
3.5" drive, not the speed checker.

Is one of the bad blocks $0002 ?  It sounds like a problem I had with one
of my drives, and it turned out the only thing Eakes Office Products of
Grand Island, Nebraska could do for my drive was to replace all the
internal workings, which fixed it, but wasn't fun.  Lost some good
programs of mine from that, and I didn't have backups. :-(

I may be wrong about $0002, as it was awhile ago, but it sounds right.

>Scott

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>Scott A. Harris   sharris @ brahms.udel.edu   sharris @ chopin.udel.edu 
>                 HIO01142 @ udelvm.udel.edu         
>     	       71311,2700 @ CompuServe      sharris12 @ GEnie                   

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