Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!amdcad!pepsi!phil
From: phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: WD cache HD controller disable
Keywords: Hard disk, controller, western digital, help
Message-ID: <29333@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 1 Mar 90 17:36:15 GMT
References: <12570040897043@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <25ec7864.2f4@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Sender: news@amdcad.AMD.COM
Reply-To: phil@pepsi.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Sunnyvale CA
Lines: 16

In article <25ec7864.2f4@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) writes:
|In article <12570040897043@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu> BARTHELEMY-O@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Olivier Barthelemy) writes:
|>Hi. I just got a new WD cache HD controller. Since my hard disk has
|>some problems , I need to reformat it. I planned on using Spinrite,
|>but to do so I have to disable the cache. 
|
|I use Spinrite II on my WD1006VMM2 controller and ST4096 hard disk with no
|problems.

I'll second that. I use SRII on my WD1006V-SR2 and ST-4096 with no
problems either. Nearly 800 Kbytes throughput! Yes, this is running
RLL on an MFM drive. Please don't call the MFM police.

--
Phil Ngai, phil@amd.com		{uunet,decwrl,ucbvax}!amdcad!phil
A PC without DESQview is like Unix without ^Z.