ERASE WAIT TIME

Is it possible change erase wait time for other value not 350ms ?
Thanks.

I've often wondered that myself.

did you try help command in mhdd?
help en scan, for example...
anyway it is possible (see mhdd.cfg)

HI .. Maysoft...

this is what i see in Mhdd.cfg
#PRIMARY_ENABLED=TRUE
#AUTODETECT_ENABLED=TRUE
#DEVICE=3

Can you tell me what command must added to change erase wait time value..

Thanks

below the line 3 in the mhdd.cfg file you will find:

#SCAN_ERASEWAITSDELAY=350

you can change the time in msec with this line, also you can change the time out set with:

#SCAN_TIMEOUT=240

and in this case the time is in sec

thanks

How does "erase wait time" really works ?
I've run it and i got a few erased blocks. But when i push F8 , SMART reports reallocated sector = 0 [RAW VALUE] what means no sectors were reallocated on my disk. Where did erased blocks go ?

It's just a magic…

i'm serious...

delays usually caused by "unstable" bits. that requires the drive to apply more ecc correction. By rewriting that sectors we also rewrite ECC fields, and blocks are good again…

On all modern drives if you see a bad block or a delay, that usually means not a physical bad but just ECC error.

So is there a similar setting that can be added to the mhdd.cfg file to change the timeout while performing the ATOF command? Sometimes drives with lots of errors take a long time to copy to image files. It would be nice to tell MHDD to be less patient.

Is there a MHDD.CFG reference somewhere?

Thanks,
Phil

This is impossible.

I was afraid you were going to say that. :cry:

sorry

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