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From: gwoho@nntp-server.caltech.edu (g liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: initializing scsi hard drive
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.082316.18006@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 4 Feb 91 08:23:16 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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i have a scsi hard drive. presumable the drive is suposed to know where
all the bad tracks are and aviod them, so it appears to have no
bad tracks.  it however has a bad track that is not in its list of
bad blocks. if i send a command to read it, it never responds.
(its a st277n)
there is what looks like a battery on the drive.
what happens if i remove it?
i want to know how i can tell the drive to low level format itself,
check for bad blocks and store them in the memory.
if i just remove the batery, i supose the memory would go, and the drive
would have to do a media analysys and remark the bad tracks. either that
or quit working forever. (or maybe until i send it the right command)
(i have the software to send arbitrary commands down the scsi)
i have a future domain tmc880 controller.
any help would be appreciated.
gwoho liu.