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SubjectRe: DriveReady SeekComplete Error
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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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