The size of the drives changed but these drives seemed to have bad sectors that were just unrecoverable, (ie even when it did recover size it still tended to lose data on a read) or they were in a couple of cases just unusable due to age and hw problems other than sectors. One drive I remember was unable to read without going into "thrash mode" (the only way I can describe what it did.) Several of the drives where 4 gigs that had been formated and used as 2 gigs. (bios updgrade time)
James On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 07:19:59 -0500 daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 21:51:19 -0800 > James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > > > Deryk, > > If this drive has been used for a while maybe a low level format will > > bring it back. I was helping a friend a while back recover some old > > computers for schools in the area. A lot of the drives had simular > > problems (although not as large a drive) 2 gig drives with 1 gig of > > "usable" space for example. We would low level format the drives and then > > "poof" they were back to normal most of the time. > > > > James > > > > James, > > I'm curious...what happened the other times when the low-level format didn't > work? > > -- > daRcmaTTeR > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Registered Linux User 182496 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 7:05am up 22 days, 21:37, 2 users, load average: 0.24, 0.41, 0.28 > >
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