December 24th, 2017, 18:21
December 26th, 2017, 5:44
December 27th, 2017, 2:04
Spildit wrote:It should be possible on "some" Samsung drives to get the entire M/C with a single VSC ....
But i don't think this is what you are looking for.
December 27th, 2017, 2:27
BGman wrote:Recently I found out that Sediv Toshiba miscalculates in some cases the position of SA and reads wrong tracks.
mikem wrote:During imaging a drive, resets are important to get a drive out of a particular error state or to flush the drive's buffer memory, this can happen several tens of times an hour and so requires constant resetting. The breakthough we have made is we found a hidden module within the SA of the [Toshiba] drive and have located the exact bit of a byte that stores this flag. We found that changing the flag and saving back to the drive's firmware permanently disables the re-allocation meaning that drives will image normally without lots of intervention and restarting and allows all types of automatic reset and power cycling during imaging.
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This is not the translator issue. There is a terminal command that turns off bad sector reallocation, it is well known so I wont repost it here, however, when the drive soft or hard resets and on power cycle the reallocation flag is turned back on resulting with slow reads. What was discovered turns off reallocation permanently that survives soft, hard and power cycles. The flag is in a module that is not listed in the standard module list, and is hidden in SA HPA area.
December 27th, 2017, 6:27
December 27th, 2017, 10:05
December 27th, 2017, 15:10
maximus wrote:If it was easy, don't you think all the tools would be doing it?
December 27th, 2017, 21:07
BGman wrote:maximus wrote:If it was easy, don't you think all the tools would be doing it?
Not at all. For them "easy" means "easy to sniff out", so they try to avoid it...
By the way, the SA tracks are not always negative ...
December 28th, 2017, 6:23
maximus wrote:Are you a programmer? Or are you just trying to figure out how to do something complicated by using simple commands (which most likely is not possible)?
December 28th, 2017, 7:47
BGman wrote: The programmers make things to look complicated, but they are not....
December 28th, 2017, 8:39
BGman wrote:I'm not a programmer. The programmers make things to look complicated, but they are not....
December 28th, 2017, 12:10
maximus wrote:Maybe that is my problem, I am a programmer so I always have to do things the hard way...
December 28th, 2017, 12:29
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