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From: root@sporty.UUCP (Super STUD)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.misc
Subject: Re: IDE drives
Message-ID: <287@sporty.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 91 23:13:49 GMT
References: <1991Mar1.180233.5808@aucs.AcadiaU.ca> <1991Mar4.004458.12492@drolet.CAM.ORG>
Reply-To: jeff@sporty.UUCP (Super STUD)
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Organization: J. A. Anderson & Company, Columbus, OH
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In article <1991Mar4.004458.12492@drolet.CAM.ORG> drolet@drolet.CAM.ORG (Jean-Jacques Drolet) writes:
>In <1991Mar1.180233.5808@aucs.AcadiaU.ca> 870646c@aucs.AcadiaU.ca (Barry Comer) writes:
>
>>Does anyone know if the format done by xenix during installation will
>>screw up the low level information that exists on IDE drives?
>>later
>>Barry Comer
>
>I have Xenix System V installed on a 180-MB IDE Itama hard disk drive, and
>everything works fine.

I installed an IDE drive.  I selected a destructive scan (wont hurt, nothing
on the drive, eh?).  WRONG  The system worked for a bout 24 hours before I
started getting tons of errors on the hard drive.  I had to install a new HD.

DO NOT SELECT DESTRUCTIVE SCAN.  You can, however, scan non-destructively.