Path: utzoo!attcan!sobmips!roe
From: roe@sobmips.UUCP (r.peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: Imprimis Wren V's on an RS2030?
Message-ID: <1989Dec14.071731.2514@sobmips.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 89 07:17:31 GMT
References: <14783@shamash.cdc.com>
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Organization: Sobeco Group - Montreal, Canada
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From article <14783@shamash.cdc.com>, by ewm@punjab.udev.cdc.com (Eric Markwardt):
> I'm trying to stick some Wren V's (94181-702) on our 2030s we 
> just got in.  We've been having trouble getting the defect list 
> read off the disk and think this may be resulting in some of the 
> read and/or write errors we've been getting on the disks.

Lie to the standalone format program.  Tell it you have a 94191-766 disk,
and override the disk geometry.  It seems that, after doing so, the
format program properly locates the bad sector info by itself.
-- 
One makes strong assumptions delving	       Roe Peterson
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	- Stephen Hawking, Cambridge