Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!n025fc From: n025fc@tamuts.tamu.edu (Kevin Weller) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.misc Subject: Re: IDE drives Message-ID: Date: 9 Mar 91 02:59:37 GMT References: <1991Mar1.180233.5808@aucs.AcadiaU.ca> <1991Mar4.004458.12492@drolet.CAM.ORG> <287@sporty.UUCP> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Distribution: na Organization: Texas A&M University, Computer Science Department Lines: 24 In-reply-to: root@sporty.UUCP's message of 7 Mar 91 23:13:49 GMT In article <287@sporty.UUCP> root@sporty.UUCP (Super STUD) writes: > 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. I think you had a bad hard drive. I've used the destructive scan several times (bought first disk, reorganized partitions once, bought second disk), and I've had no problems. I'm using Conner CP-3204 and Conner CP-3104 IDE drives. -- Kev -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kevin L. Weller /-------+--------------------\ internet: n025fc@tamuts.tamu.edu | aTm | GIG 'EM, AGGIES! | CIS: 73327,1447 (but I rarely log on) \-------+--------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ %SYS-E-BADOPSYS, Fatal system error, DEC VMS halting / "And now for something -SYS-I-GETUNIX, Replace with UNIX immediately! / completely different." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Monty Python