Date   : Mon, 30 Mar 1992 15:10:16 GMT
From   : micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!tamsun!tamuts!jdb8042@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (John Donald Baker)
Subject: Epson QX-10 HD problem update.

For those who have been following my QX-10 saga, I have more to report on my
hard disk problems.

I said before that the mechanisms I have work just fine on a MS-DOS machine
with an Adaptec ACB 2010A controller.

When operated under the ComRex system with WD1002-5D Rev. Y controller, the
drive passes its seek test (very audible) and the standard diagnostic software
claims that the controller passes all of its register tests.

Attempting to format the drive, however, results in the drive being unreadble
by anything--Epson or MS-DOS machine.

I got different format and verification programs from a fellow QX-10 owner
whose system uses exactly the same hardware.  this program does about the same
thing.  It sits on each cylinder for about 17 seconds, then moves on.  During
the verification phase, it returns the following error message:

WD1000 ERROR = 10  CYLINDER cccc  SECTOR ss  HEAD hh  ALREADY LOGGED

Starting with cylinder 0001, the message at the end is only 'LOGGED' for the
first sector of head 0 only.

It repeats the message(s) above for the first 5 cylinders after which it
aborts.

The stand-alone verifier returns the same message(s) except says 'WD1002 ...'

Can anyone tell me what ERROR = 10 might be and the significance of the
different '[ALREADY] LOGGED' messages.

Thanks for the help.

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