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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: r0nn13 on February 23, 2004, 07:46:24 PM

Title: More Hard Drive problem
Post by: r0nn13 on February 23, 2004, 07:46:24 PM

I seem to have dropped my IBM 2.5inch hard drive and it has been slightly damaged - yes silly me.

When I format the drive it gets to 48% and doesn't get any further. I was wondering if there are any tools that will scan the surface of the drive and mark/record all the bad sectors so the Amiga will just ignore these parts?

I have tried AmiNET and there are only a couple of programs that deal with Hard Drives but don't do the hiding part.

Any thoughts? I have heard of Quarterdeck tools but don't know what it does.

Title: Re: More Hard Drive problem
Post by: RobinC on February 23, 2004, 07:57:50 PM

I had a drive like that once - all I could do was partition it up, leaving a blank space in the center where the damage was... Worked well for years after that before I moved up to a larger drive...

Robin

Title: Re: More Hard Drive problem
Post by: r0nn13 on February 23, 2004, 08:03:59 PM

Sounds like a plan.

I just need a program that can read the disk to find out where the disk starts and stops being faulty. Failing that I will just have to do it manually by doing small partitions to see where the bad part is.

Thanks for the help.

Title: Re: More Hard Drive problem
Post by: shIva on February 23, 2004, 11:51:18 PM

never needed it, but whats with the BAD BLOCK LIST ? wouldn´t that be an option ? :-o

Title: Re: More Hard Drive problem
Post by: r0nn13 on February 24, 2004, 08:51:06 AM

Please explain this BAD BLOCK LIST to a newbie (me) pls...

Title: Re: More Hard Drive problem
Post by: Vincent on February 24, 2004, 12:49:59 PM

I remember a small prog called MyFormat that was supposed to be able to mark bad blocks while formatting and the drive wouldn't use those blocks.

That might just be wishfull thinking though.  It might be on aminet somewhere.

Title: Re: More Hard Drive problem
Post by: patrik on February 24, 2004, 01:42:29 PM

@r0nn13:

I would advice you to connect the drive to a PC, run the Drive Fitness Test (http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm) software for IBM/Hitachi disks and use it to low-level format the drive by selecting the "Erase Disk" option.


/Patrik

Title: Re: More Hard Drive problem
Post by: DanDude on February 24, 2004, 03:17:11 PM

Try the SCSI tester on Aminet.
http://www.aminet.net/aminet.cgi?string=scsi+tester

:-)