AT&T UNIX PC 7300 Hard disk formatting initing?

[Brett Slocum]

In article <2582 at ritcsh.UUCP> steveg at ritcsh.UUCP (Steve Good -- ISC) writes:
>The problem (I am not sure if it is a problem) I am having is that when
>I try to init the harddisk and run a surface test, it finds more than 126
>(I think that is the number) bad blocks and complains that it can not
>write to the bad block table.

I had this problem when I first got my machine.  What it means is that
your hard disk is shot and needs to be replaced.  Luckily mine was still
under warranty.  It sounds like yours isn't.  What probably happened was
that someone forgot to park the heads before moving the machine. (Naughty,
naughty!)  I don't know what the going rate is for the proper hard drives,
but I have seen numerous accounts on here about replacing them.  

Good luck, you'll need it!

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