Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!sun!pepper!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: MicroBotics StarDrive Message-ID: <58401@sun.uucp> Date: 29 Jun 88 17:25:53 GMT References: <730@applix.UUCP> <57765@sun.uucp> <6608@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 21 In article <57765@sun.uucp> (I) wrote: >Note that I am a bit biased because I wrote some of the software on the >distribution disk (an intuition based fsck for hard disks called MDFixer). In article <6608@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> (Daniel Jay Barrett) writes: > Whoa. Would this program work in a non-MicroBotics setup >or standard (C.Ltd, Supra) Amiga hard drive? It sounds like a valuable >tool. Would it uncorrupt the filesystem and make it healthy again? Yes probably (assuming the C.Ltd and Supra controllers implement READ and WRITE in their driver like trackdisk does) would it spare out bad blocks? No, since there is no standard yet on how to send SCSI commands to the device (nor is there a generic "SPARE BLOCK" entry in the device driver code. The only other problem it might have is that it would want to look for sense data now and again that might not come back like it expected it to. I know it has problems with the 2090 board but haven't been able to diagnose those yet. --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.