Transoft is a good one. Anubis is another.

Either will low level wacked disks.

Although I am now liberal about tossing older 500Meg to 1giggers cause I 
can buy a 9 gig for like $89

Nothing like sketchy disks to ruin your day (or week).

Marty

PS I'm still reading this list even though I never got my IIci or LC475 
to be a LPR postscript printer for my network...

Was I dreaming about this being a real useable possibility?


PPS I got a personal laserwriter 320 for free,   this was the real 
stopper for my NetBSD idea.

On Monday, August 27, 2001, at 03:51 PM, Martin.Leidig@ePost.de wrote:

> Alexander Klein [2001-08-28 00.16 +0200]:
>> At 18:31 Uhr +0200 27.08.2001, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>>
>>>> And has anyone any idea what could be done to revive the disk?
>>> Boot into NetBSD and use "dd" to zero out the first 32k or so.
>>
>> I tried that, but it didn't work.
>>
>> It turned out that the magnetic structure of the disk itself was 
>> damaged in
>> a way that made it impossible to do a low-level-format under MacOS.
>
> Did you try Transofts "SCSI Director"?  Was discontinued a couple of 
> years ago but still functions with not too modern MacOS' (I used it 
> recently with 8.6) and is able to reanimate disks being switched off in 
> the midst of a 'low level format' on a PC SCSI adapter.
>
>
> -Moss-
> --
> -eof-
>