Hard drive "oscillates"!
08-Jul-92 01:20:56
Sb: #61809-Hard drive "oscillates"!
Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
To: daniel wolf 70250,626
Dan,
I think you're thinking of an IDE drive, not a SCSI drive. Part of
the SCSI spec requires the drive at least acknowledge the FORMAT UNIT
command, and the vast majority of SCSI drives not only acknowledge it..but
do it.
The only way you can mark bad blocks on a SCSI drive is to add them
to the defect list via the FORMAT UNIT command. The on-unit ROM handles
the details of how to format the drive and the remapping of the sectors,
the only option to the user is the interleave value.
Don