CompuServe Messages

Gus: >> If a important track goes to wallah wallah land, such as track 0, >> there are no tools a mortal would have that will fix it. But you have them, right? <bg> >> These programs are, for the most part, Greg pardon me, Greek. I find Greek much easier than Portuguese! :^) >> Just ask Greg how it is to low level format a 9gig Seagate monster… Ugly! I was doing this on a Sun Workstation, and the low level format command kept timing out before the disk was finished many hours later! I ended up having to find the place in the source code in the SunOS UNIX kernel, lengthening the default time, and then recompiling and praying! And all this without Gus to hold my hand and tell me it would be all right! (Because he was laughing too hard to stand still, as I recall!) Greg Pyros