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From: darren@bacchus.UUCP (Darren Friedlein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: HELP with 7300 hard disk PLEASE
Keywords: dead disk 7300 help
Message-ID: <757@bacchus.UUCP>
Date: 3 Nov 88 20:38:26 GMT
References: <1311@plx.UUCP> <335@argon.UUCP> <792@starfish.Convergent.COM>
Reply-To: darren@bacchus.UUCP (Darren Friedlein)
Organization: The Humanities Forum - Research Triangle Park; Durham, NC
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In article <792@starfish.Convergent.COM> cdold@starfish.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold) writes:
>Another possibility is that block zero is gone.
>The 7300 reads block zero to get the physical attributes of the drive, 
>placed there by iv.  This is how you can change drive types without 
>reconfiguring any tables; the table is on the drive.  Unfortunately,
>the loss of one block means that the drive is inaccessible.
>
>If you can 'force' a write of a valid VHB to block zero, you might recover
>the drive.
>Convergent's new machines have an 'iv -o' option just for this purpose.
>

It's possible that this can be done in "s4test" mode of the diagnostics,
but you can also use the "Hard Drive Boot Disk" supplied with your
foundation set.  Get in and back everything off - then try a low-level
format.

-darren
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