HDTest question
Don -I have a one-partition hard drive, named "WorkBench", and had been
getting "Volume WorkBench has a Read/Write Error" system messages for a
while, occasionally, averaging less than once a day. When I click it off,
the system happily proceeds to run whatever I had asked it to do, usually,
without error (that I can detect). Rarely, it gurus. The next time I issue
that same command I get no system messages, and it runs fine. I am not
certain, but I think this started after B.A.D.-ing the drive.
Anyway, I hadn't Quarterbacked it up in a while, so I decided to do
that, then try your HDTest on it. Quarterbacked last night. Now, I have
an A2000 with MicroBotics HardFrame 2000 and mounted Quantum 40s that I
bought used, and have little documentation for. What MicroBotics RDPrep
program returns in "default" information (editted to fit here better) is:
Developer's Rigid Disk Prep 1.3 Copyright 1988 MicroBotics, Inc
HardFrame.device Release 1.5
SCSI Units available, <board><LUN><SCSIID>: 001
block 27, Name "DH0"
TableSize : 16 SizeBlock : 128
SecOrg : 0 Surfaces : 1
SectorPerBlock : 1 BlocksPerTrack : 98
Reserved : 2 PreAlloc : 0
Interleave : 0
LowCyl : 1 HighCyl : 833
NumBuffers : 4 BufMemType : 5
MaxTransfer : 131072 Mask : 0x00fffffe
BootPri : 0 DosType : "DOS^A"
So I ran: 1 > HDTest HardFrame.device 001 833 1 98 And I got:
Working…please wait (^C to Abort)
81634 sectors read, 0 errors found
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