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From: tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: How to cure ST277N soft errors?
Message-ID: <11260002@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 1 Mar 91 18:13:05 GMT
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Well, I couldn't live with it any longer.  Here's what I did (so far):
0.  Backed up whole disk  ;-)
1.  Ran DiskDoctor on two partitions, including the one I was having
    problems with.  Result:  found errors in both; could not validate
    the one that was having problems.
2.  Tried AmigaDOS formatting each partition.  It would try, and get a
    couple cylinders into it and give up.
3.  Reinit the drive (hard format; low level format).  Actually ran the
    StarDrive 'find bad sectors' program first, and none were found.
    (actually none other than what were already spared out.)
4.  Reformat  (AmigaDOS) each partition.
5.  Restore all the backed up files.

This took some time, but _so_far_ seems to be working.  I'll get into some
heavy file access this weekend and find out for sure.

Tom Bruhns
tomb%hplsla@hplabs.hp.com