ISC 2.0.2 Installation Help Needed

[Chris Lewis]

In article <4524 at cvl.umd.edu>, liuqing at cvl.umd.edu (Larry Liuqing Huang) writes:
> I am trying to install ISC 2.0.2 on a 386 machine with a 120 meg hard disk.
> After the "surface analysis" it says "too many bad sectors" and terminated
> the installation procesure.  I can not cut the hard disk into pieces of
> small partitions.  

> 1).  Is there any way to get around this problem?
> 2).  Is this fixed in the new release of ISC 2.2?

We had a similar problem when we installed a Maxtor XT1140.  I was
able to work around this (I can't remember the precise details but
this is close) by formatting with one of the specialized DOS
formatters (Speedstor to be exact), making *it* do surface analysis and
alternation, *then* installed Interactive and told it to bypass
the format step.  We've not had a problem with it since.

(thinking back on this, I'm not even sure Speedstor's alternation was
ignored by interactive or not...  I probably have the details wrong, so you
should experiment, possibly using interactive to format the disk,
then speedstor to do the alternation then installing interactive.
All I *really* remember is that speedstor did the trick, and the order
of operations was wierd ;-)

It is possible that there's a cabling or hardware problem, but speedstor
should be able to tell you that (eg: if you get more than 1-2% bad
sectors, you should recheck the cabling/grounding etc.).
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Chris Lewis, Elegant Communications Inc, {uunet!attcan,utzoo}!lsuc!eci386!clewis
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