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Epson EQUITY 3865X/20 PLUS User Manual

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To start this test, select 2-Destructive Surface

analysis from the Hard Disk Format Menu. You see these

messages:

Analyze Hard Disk

Read/Save/Write/Read/Restore/Read

check for all tracks...

Current cylinder

is nnnn

As the program checks each track, it counts the cylinder

numbers (nnnn) down to zero. When the test is complete, the

program displays a report on the status of the disk, including a

table of unflagged tracks that produced write, read errors-such
as the following:

Analysis finished.

Count of tracks flagged bad

n

Count of tracks with write, read errors

=

n

Count of good tracks

= n n n n

No write,

read error was detected.

No data was destroyed.

Press ENTER to return to the menu.

If the program finds one bad track that is not flagged, the
summary would show one track with a write, read error. The

report is followed by a table like this:

Write,

Read Error Tracks

Cylinder Head

Cylinder Head

Cylinder Head

Cylinder Head

I

237

2

Confirm to register the tracks in the Write, Read Error Track

Table as bad

tracks.

Do you want to register the error

tracks

as

bad tracks? (Y/N)

Physically Formatting a Hard Disk

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