Date: Tue, 22 Aug 95 18:21:59 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: imb@scgt.oz.au, bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net Subject: Re: Install issues (was: State of the union speech Message-ID: <9508230022.AA02565@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199508222310.JAA25937@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Aug 23, 95 09:10:39 am
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> >downloading a format utility from ftp.wdc.com, and low level formatting > >the drive (reinstalling everything later). > > For the WD1007V-SE*, there is a formatting utility in the BIOS ROM, and > it works better than the format utility. Low level reformatting should > only be necessary if you change the hardware number of sectors/track. You do. You get rid of the !@#$$! sector sparing. The whole problem is the sector sparing. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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