I wrote:
I have an IPX running 4.1.3 which I want to upgrade to 4.1.4;
I just bought a Micropolis-4221 SCSI drive, 2.0GB. I get tons
of media errors after format/suninstall when restoring files
to it. [...]
SUMMARY:
Rick Dunbar <rdunbar@uucom.com> said:
It sounds like there is a problem with the drive. Try using
the 4.1.4 format program, select analyze, and then run the
read test. See what happens.
John DiMarco <jdd@db.toronto.edu> wrote:
The problems you have been seeing have nothing to do with the
format.dat entry. Your disk is about to die. Replace it
immediately.
altman@cryton.demon.co.uk (Hugo Fiennes) echoed this in a reply
to a similar request I made in comp.sys.sun.{admin,hardware}:
The drive is dead - send it back. You're actually getting real
media errors, which you definitely shouldn't get. You could
try using the defect management on format to map out the
errors, but on a new drive you shouldn't have any errors - any
manufacturing ones should already have been mapped.
While not exactly good news, at least I can stop beating my head
against the wall. Guess it's time to send it back to Micropolis.
Thanks all!
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