Epson Equity II - Manual (Page 104)

WARNING: If any errors occur during this check, all data on the
track that produces the error is destroyed. For this
reason, if you think that an unflagged bad track is
causing trouble, first run option 4, Non-destructive
surface analysis, to check the disk surface.
This test operates by a complex process of writing, reading, and verifying
information on every track of the hard disk, except for tracks that are
already flagged as bad tracks.
To start the test, press 3 and then Enter. You see these messages:
Analyze Hard Disk
Read/Save/Write/Read/Restore/Read check for all
tracks. . .
Current cylinder is xxxx
As each track is checked, the cylinder number (
XXXX
) counts down to
zero. When the analysis is complete, the program displays a complete report
on the status of the disk, including a table of unflagged tracks that produced
write, read errors. For a hard disk with one flagged bad track, a display like
this appears:
Analysis finished.
Count of tracks flagged bad
Count of tracks with write, read errors
Count of good tracks
No write, read error was detected.
No data was destroyed.
=
n
= n
= nnn
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 then followed by
a table like this:
Write, Read Error Tracks
Cylinder Head Cylinder Head Cylinder Head Cylinder Head
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)?
Diagnostics