Micropolis - moon or bust?

From: jpero_at_cgo.wave.ca <(jpero_at_cgo.wave.ca)>
Date: Sat Dec 20 17:33:50 1997

Hi!

Have anyone noticed that Micropolis hung up their website and fallen
off earth's face?

This done, I have a question:

I have a 340MB micropolis scsi, model 1684-7 that has problems,
terminated properly BTW. I'm not sure which bad platters or sick
logic board? Everything were set right. I used spinrite 3.x to test
the surface for short time at level 6 after proper LLF and fdisked
(lot of seeking but finally goes through), Again seekings during the
formatting. I get 16K worth of bad sectors in 2 places but what
about the first few tracks which I got the clue of appox 290mb
formatted that I suspect due to bad sector reaasignments instead of
correct appox 330mb. I hate to break it open, finding out it's
good platters! So, I have your expert experience on this!

If there is so cheap 400 to 500mb SCSI hd and with gusto in
performance then I would know that bad hd I have can be tossed
without concern. By the way, I have a ST11200N, giving me problems
as well, spin sounds good to me but logic board could be at fault, I
get errors in r/w and formatting. Any known problem histories are
what I'm looking for.

Thanks!

*AND* Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!

Jason D.
Received on Sat Dec 20 1997 - 17:33:50 GMT