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From: kiron@concour.cs.concordia.ca (The Doctor)
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Subject: Reviving dead Fujitsu drive
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Date: 4 Jun 91 18:40:00 GMT
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Hi there... at work, on one of our 4/260's, the root disk died... fine... I rebooted off
the boot tape into munix, and attempted to reformat the drive...however, the defect list was
on the dead block (block 0)... as a result, I cannot repair the block, nor can I format 
the disk (it chokes on block 0)... suggestions?  Is it as one friend put it "a good paperweight", or can it be recovered?

Thanks

Kiron


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 Kiron D. Bondale       Concordia University, Mtl., Quebec, Canada
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