Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!hplabs!pyramid!octopus!pete
From: pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Spinwrite work on ESDI disks?
Summary: Yup. Depends on the controller!
Message-ID: <338@octopus.UUCP>
Date: 27 Aug 88 14:01:17 GMT
References: <27788@oliveb.olivetti.com> <3100@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Reply-To: pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann)
Organization: Octopus Enterprises, Cupertino CA
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In article <3100@ttidca.TTI.COM> moss@ttidcb.tti.com (Les Moss) writes:
>I have Spinrite and it does not work on any disk with a buffered
>controller (probably any controller with 1:1 interleave). Thus it
>is not very useful for high performance disk systems. (My controller is a
>WD1006RAH).
>-- 
>Les Moss

Well, I have Spinrite, and an Adaptec 2322 controller running a Maxtor
ESDI drive. With tracks so big (18KB/track), every defect eats a lot of
space. We tried Spinrite, and it worked just fine. 1:1 interleave, buffered
controller and all (1MB/sec read data throughput). Spinrite eliminated
all but a couple of the marked defects. I'll report on whether any
problems show up over time.

Pete
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