#Hard-Drive Help
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I currently have two hard-drives in my system. One is a Seagate 1096N
80meg and the other is a 157N 45meg. I'm having trouble with the 1096.
Both drives are installed internally with the terminating resistors
installed only on the 1096 which is last in the chain.
The problem is that the 1096 corrupts the data when writing. If I copy
a program to the drive and then try to run it I'll get a message saying
that the file is not executable or if it runs it will crash the machine. If
I save IFF files and display them the colors are scrambled or they crash
the machine. The system reports no read/write errors at any time. I've
tried the drives with two different controllers with the same results.
Is this some bizzare termination problem or is this drive just going
south? Also I noticed this problem before I istalled the 147N. Any
comments?
Paul,
Try swapping the drives…see if the problem moves. If it does,
you've got a bad connector on the end. If it doesn't, you've probably got
a bad drive.
Don
I tried a new cable with the same results. Are there any programs that can
check a drive for this kind of problem. Some kind of verify after write
thing.
Paul,
The driver should do a read after write to verify the write. I've
got a program in the libs here called HDTEST.LZH that will test every
sector on the drive…but with SCSI drives, the error information isn't
necessairly correct… that is…the error is real, but the cylinder, head
and offset information may not be correct.
Don
Don,
Thanks for the info. I'll DL the file and give it a try. Thanks again.
sure you've got CLEAN cabling? sure you haven't got 'RESELECT' enabled on
your controller?