Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!koster From: koster@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Kevin Oster) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Trackdisk and stuff, error handling Summary: How does trackdisk handle errors? Keywords: Disk, ERROR, trackdisk Message-ID: <4018@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> Date: 21 Jun 88 20:57:47 GMT Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu Reply-To: koster@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Kevin Oster) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 15 I have some questions about how trackdisk handles disk errors. 1) Does it sometimes do a track read, notice a checksum error, then read the sector in again to see if it could be a read error? (That is, is reading from the disk sometimes flaky.) 2) Or does it, when it sees an error, home the heads and step out again right away, which causes the telltale disk error sound? My reasoning is this: suppose trackdisk gets an error. It should read in the track again to see if it happens again. THEN, if so, it should try to home the heads and step out to see if somehow it got on the wrong track.