Hard Disk Regenerator

Previously Frank le Spikkin <zaq.DeleteThis@invalid.jp> wrote:
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.computerbroker.com/hddregenerator.htm</font" target="_blank">http://www.computerbroker.com/hddregenerator.htm</font</a>>

 > Miracle cure or snake oil?

 > [instinct suggests the latter ]

A mixture. There are actually write-patterns that will
have a very high chance of identifying potential
bas sectors, significantly higher than just a conventional
surface scan. I think spinrite (-> google) was the first
to do this.

They cannot 'regenerate' anything. But the disk will do
automatic reallocation, when one of the special patterns
detects a problem.

All depends on whether they use patterns appropriate for the
low-level data coding. For MFM/RLL this was relatively easy.
Today they use things like PLRMLR (?) that are more complicated.

This could be a good product, but it is very hard to tell.

Arno

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