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From: bwhite@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bill White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Adaptec + Seagate hard drive question
Message-ID: <1152@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Date: 24 Feb 90 23:04:43 GMT
Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens
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	I have an ICD host adaptor with an Adaptec 4070 controller and
a Seagate 277R-1 (?) 28ms 65meg RLL hard drive.  My problem is I keep
getting a <SENSE $11> code.  No bad sectors, no data errors, just the
sense $11.  It happens on maybe one or two tracks on two (out of five)
partitions, but it makes me wonder if something might be wrong.
	Incidentally, it's always in the same place, so that rules out
cable errors or such.  Anyone know what this means?  The Adaptec 4070
manual says something about an "unrecoverable data field error" or some
such nonsense, but I have yet to lose any data whatsoever, even after
performing repeated read-write-verify cycles on some of the sectors in
question.
	BTW, why are all the tracks initialized to "lllllllll"...?

						Bill White
						bwhite@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu