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From: grinberg@bimacs.BITNET (Dennis Grinberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Hard disks
Keywords: RRL, hard disk, low level format
Message-ID: <846@bimacs.BITNET>
Date: 1 May 89 10:38:02 GMT
Organization: Math & CS, BarIlan U, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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I have a clone (Taiwanese)_ that a bought a couple of years ago from a store
that has since seen red. (I told you so...)  My hard disk (Microscience
100341-001) has recently been giving problems.  I can't even test it with
Nortons DT because when trying to read one of the clusters (marked as bad)
it gives a "Disk C: not ready" and quits.

I'd like to do a low level format (I do not have spinrite), the gc800:0005
doesn't do anything and the INT 13 interrupts documented in the _old_
IBM XT technical reference don't seem to work for me.  My controller
is an Adaptec, the only other identification on it is the BIOS which says
405702-00A 1986 and another chip with 405701-00 1986.

Anybody have any ideas?

Using the controller+disk I get 30M, is there any way to know if the
controller is RRL?  One solution to my problem would be to format the
disk on a different computer, but I've go to know what type of controller
should do the job.

Last question: Can anyone list the different types of AT drives?

Thanks!!!



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