#HD0: Read/Write error
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I have a 48 Meg Seagate harddrive which I have been using for about two
years. The drive is currently just under 1/2 way full. For some reason
though, whenever I try to write a new file, the System comes back and tells
me that I have a read/write error on the Harddisk. Is there a program
available on the CompuServe or elsewhere which can analyze my Harddrive and
tell me about the status of it. Also is there a way to tell the computer to
'skip' the next 'bad' area on the harddrive and store in the next available
'good' area?
John,
In AmigaUser, Lib 9 look for HDTEST.LZH. Presuming the drive you
have isn't a SCSI drive…it'll give you the necessary information for a
program like PREP so you can map out any bad sectors.
As to skipping bad areas…no…not really (other than via PREP or
some equivalent program that came with your drive controller/host adapter).
You can partition around the bad area…but that's not a good solution.
Don
John;
The GVP software will test and map out bad sectors but I presume that it
will only do so on their controller cards. I am assuming that you are
using a 2091 under AmigaDOS 1.3. It sounds at though you should be doing a
low level format (after a FULL HD backup of course).
I don't believe that there is anything you can do for your Seagate unless
there is something in the libraries that can find and mark the blocks as
used. With some drives, the drive itself can be told to replace bad blocks
(Micropolis, Quantum, CDC, Maxtor and some others).
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bill
Bill,
About 6 months ago, I had the same problem with my hard drive, R/W error so
at that time, I LHARCed all vital programs (No Backup utility), and I did a
low level format. Now it may be that I am not doing it correctly, but I
think that it just happens to be bad sectors on the drive. If you have any
other solutions I might try them, but I don't think I will try the Low
Level format again just yet. thanks,
John
John;
What controller are you using? The only controller/software combination
that I personally know of that handles bad block mapping is the GVP
FaastPrep. I am sure that there are other (Microbiotics, etc) but I have
no experience with them.
CBM is sorely lacking in that area. If you know the bad block numbers then
Prep (or HDTool box on 2.0) will let you tell the system to map out the bad
blocks.
If I understand your request, you want to find a utility that will do the
test, give you a list of bad blocks and allow you to then map them out be
allocating the blocks to a dummy file…yes?
I believe that such software exists but I don't know what it is or where to
find it.
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bill