Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bgsuvax!bear From: bear@bgsuvax.UUCP (Michael D. Bear) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Western Digital controller Summary: ECC test may be meaningless Keywords: ECC TEST FAILED Message-ID: <2716@bgsuvax.UUCP> Date: 3 Aug 88 01:01:53 GMT References: Organization: Bowling Green State University, Ohio 43403. Lines: 13 In article , porter@topaz.rutgers.edu (Adam L. Porter) writes: > Can anyone give me some help with my controller? > I get an "ECC TEST FAILED" on a certain diagnostic program on my Western I have seen a couple of PD hard disk test programs that include an ECC test, and they always seem to fail on XT class machines. I think most XT controllers don't implement ECC, so the test is meaningless. At any rate, mine failed too, and has worked fine for years... -- Michael D. Bear UUCP .!cbosgd!osu-cis!bgsuvax!bear Computer Technician CSNET bear@bgsu.edu Bowling Green State University ARPANET bear%bgsu.edu@relay.cs.net (419) 372-2104