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To: AreWeThereYet who wrote (5147)1/2/1998 11:56:00 PM
From: NHP  Read Replies (2) of 7685
 
Andy,

Here's a little more information that might be interesting.

To date I have run Windows95 Scandisk to check the SparQ Starter Disk,and 6 additional Disks which I recently purchased. The only error encountered was one bad allocation unit(16,384 bytes)on one of the disks.

I decided to lock out the bad allocation unit rather than return the disk (I believe IDE disks are not supposed to have any bad spots on them).

Reformating did not solve the problem.

Anyway, 16KBytes bad out of 7 Gigs is not too hard to take.

The DTR tests that I reported previously were run from the Windows95 DOS prompt with 3 different versions of XCOPY. Someone from Manitoba contacted me concerning the tests and gave me some insight on increasing the DTR. I believe Windows98 will help increase the DTR and I'll probably upgrade from a 486 to a pentium sometime in the near future.

Thanks for your input.
NHP
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