Re: Zip disks & RamFast

[George Rentovich <grent@home.com>]

Using the 992k and deleting the one partition I now  have 4 partitions of
24.5 meg and zero free.  Running Deliverence and complete overhaul on each
partition shows no errors on any of them. Ramfast must see something it
does not like. It comes up with the Defect List Size as soon as you click
on the SCSI Utilities. This is the last item in the list about the device
you select. It can not scan the disk and read each block. This is more like
a file that it reads.
  Take Care
           Geo

George Rentovich wrote:

> Hi,
>    I have a question that has not come up in using the Zip drives and
> Ramfast. I am using the latest roms 3.01f. It is the Rev D card (small
> one). It seems some of the disks show errors in the Ramfast Utilities.
> When the disk was first inserted it showed no errors. This disk was
> formatted by the manufacture for the Mac. It showed no errors on the
> IIgs when in its original HFS format.
>   Formatting it on the IIgs in ProDos showed 16 errors in the defect
> list in ramfast. This is after it formatted and partitioned.
> Reformatting it a second time showed 24 errors with 992k not used and 5
> partitions of 19456k. I reformatted a few more times and it stilled
> showed 24 errors. One more time formatting and it showed 32 for the list
> of defects. Another reformat brought it back to 24.
>   I have run across this before where it shows up on some of the disks
> drives and not others. I have used the blocks that were in space
> available. I used other utilities (IIgs) and they showed no problems
> with the blocks if they are used.
>   The Defect list always has them in increments of 8. That is 8, 16, 24,
> 32, 64. On the mac reformatted in HFS there is no problems.
>
>    My question is, is it safe to used these unassigned (Space Available)
> blocks in the partions?
>
>    I want to use the zip disks to start backing up my 5.25s so I can
> them on to a few CDs.
>
>   Also the click of death is a broken wire on the rewrite head. It is a
> fine wire about thickness of a human hair. The broken wire on the one I
> seen was broken in the center. Not at either end. It appeared that it
> may have snagged on the disk coming in or the slide cover for the
> rewrite head.
>
> Take Care
>           Geo