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From: wilke@cb.ecn.purdue.edu (Todd Wilke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Low-Level format of ST-225
Keywords: ST-225, WD controller, low-level format
Message-ID: <727@cb.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 4 Mar 89 08:25:25 GMT
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I have an XT-clone (Epson Equity II, NEC-V30) with a Seagate 
ST-225 hard drive and Western Digital controller (WD1002).
The drive was beginning to have a lot of seek-errors,
so I ran a low-level format and now the drive is botched.
The formatter flagged over 1000 bad sectors and I cannot
create a DOS partition (disk read-error).

The drive itself is fine, it formatted (with minimal bad
tracks) when mounted in another system (AT-class), so the
problem seems to be between the low-level formatter (which
is Epson's, not from WD) and the controller.

Is the phone call to WD for documentation and formatting
software all that I need? More? Less?

Todd Wilke                            wilke@cb.ecn.purdue.edu
Dept. Chemical Engineering
Purdue University