JIM HOLSONBACK wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 RJT> Anybody know where I can get a utility for those?

 WC> Go too www.maxtor.com, plug "MaxBlast" into the search utility and
 WC> download it from the link as I did..

 RJT> MaxBlast?  I was of the impression that was one of those deals to let
 RJT> you use larger drives on bios-inhibited older systems,  or something of
 RJT> the sort.  I'll take a look,  see what the site has to say...

 JH> I think what Wayne meant to type was "PowerMax",  or PowMax, or
 JH> sumpin' like that.  Maxblast will let you clone a hard drive. 
 JH> Powermax has drive diagnostics,  at least a pseudo-LLF program, and
 JH> etc.

Apparently,  as some other folks also pointed out.  See my nearby comment
about starting to download it and giving up when it stalled out at
bedtime...

I'll have another go at it in a bit.

 JH> AFAICT, Powermax will work on drives from other Mfgrs, as well.

That's interesting,  as the lower-level stuff is all peculiar to the
individual mfr.  I'd rather stick with the one for the drive in question,
and since I already have those for Seagate and WD,  this oughta round out
my collection nicely.

 JH> A few months back, I had a beef with it, as it had "LLF'd" a HDD,
 JH> then another program in the pkg. tested and certified it as 'error
 JH> free' , and I had run about 50 passes of its "burn-in" HDD test, 
 JH> but after all that passed succesfully, the first run of MS's
 JH> SCANDISK found some bad clusters.

Hmm.

Well,  I got past the difficulty this time by making "H:" be 240M
instead of 256M,  so the area which was giving me the most problems is
isolated,  and I'd have to copy the stuff off that drive on to another one
before messing with it,  but I want to know if that one's on its way out or
what...

Not my highest priority,  but something I want to deal with at some point.

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