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Re: Mylex 960?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin Brown W.)
Fri Feb 6 00:43:00 1998
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 16:21:53 -0600 (CST)
From: "Justin Brown W." <jbrown@tanstaafl.busprod.com>
To: "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199802052050.MAA16519@dandelion.com>
On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Leonard N. Zubkoff wrote:
> You had mentioned something about a full sector test under NT, which I took to
> mean that every sector was being tested for readability, which clearly isn't
> possible. I can easily believe that a simple DOS format would be very fast,
> but I don't believe it accesses all the blocks on a disk.
>
> Leonard
>
Actually, as far as I know, MS-Dos's format does a sector read test as it
formats unless told otherwise. What that test actually consists of I
don't know, although it will (mostly) reliably find bad sectors on a disk
being formated and mark them as such. I'm sorry if I misled everyone when
I said "format with sector test", I meant to say "this wasn't a dos quick
format."
-Justin
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