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.