Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!imagen!atari!jwt
From: jwt@atari.UUCP (Jim Tittsler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: SH204 disk errors
Message-ID: <930@atari.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 88 03:21:37 GMT
References: <46@lzaz.ATT.COM>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA
Lines: 13
Keywords: sh204, disk, strange behavior
Summary: SH204/SH205 *DO* report errors

In article <46@lzaz.ATT.COM>, hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) writes:
> [...]
> 3. SH204 CANNOT report ANY ERROR to the computer.
> 
> So why doesn't everyone die on a disk error?  The Adaptec interface
> does the retries, and if successful, all is well.  What happens
> if the sector is BAD? You read in junk, fail to get the error message,
> and see strange things.

That is definitely NOT true.  The SH204 and SH205 do indeed return with
an error flagged when one occurs.

Jim Tittsler, Atari Corporation