Messages in this thread | | | From | Christopher Thompson <> | Subject | Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error | Date | Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:03:42 -0600 |
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On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: > Possible he has run out of slip sectors for replace ment and the drive > media is going bad. Age or a bad thin film. Regardless you should back > up and get a new drive. > > I have never publish how to destroy a drive in that fashion. > I have given folks wild and crazy for_loops but I did not let it access > those questioned areas.
It is also possible that his memory is bad. He should probably run memtest86 before trashing the hard drive. I used to get these errors when the top 64 megs of my 128 megs of RAM was defective.
-- Christopher Thompson http://hypocrite.org/ "...And blessed are the broken..."
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