Xref: utzoo comp.periphs:1613 comp.sys.ibm.pc:26041 comp.sys.mac:28297 comp.sys.amiga:30616 comp.sys.att:5815 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!percival!parsely!agora!billsey From: billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour) Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.att Subject: Re: Hard disk testing stuff -- specifically badblocks Message-ID: <1410@agora.UUCP> Date: 12 Mar 89 22:18:51 GMT References: <11195@s.ms.uky.edu: Organization: Advanced Solutions, Hillsboro, OR Lines: 32 From article <11195@s.ms.uky.edu:, by david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae): : A question for the assembled masses, one which I don't know a proper : newsgroup in which to post the question. : : Short version: [Deleted] : Long version: [Mostly deleted] : : I have a hard disk which I'm trying to use on an Amiga 2000. (It's one : of those CDC Wren II's which the guy in Albany is selling). I have an : 2090A controllor board and the standard Amiga DOS software for PREP'ing : and FORMAT'ing disks. The problem is that during the format the : machine hangs at Cyl 101 in a way which makes me think it's a bad : block. You could laways find someone with one of the other SCSI controllers for the Amiga that *does* have a real low-level formatting routine... I know that the 2090 doesn't yet. Where you might run into problems is if the Wren II has a different method for handling bad blocks than other controllers... If the Wren II is compatible with one of the other supported drives, you should be able to do a real clean format. I use the Supra on my system, and there are about 20-30 drive/controller combos supported with a very good low-level format routine. : <-- David Herron; an MMDF guy