Run All Above Checks - Epson EQUITY Y14499113001 User Manual

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Press
and then
Y
menu is displayed.
An error occurs only if the drive is malfunctioning. In this case, back up
all your files, and have the drive serviced immediately. (The drive may be
corrupting your data.)
Read, verify check
This test reads and verifies data from all tracks of the disk, checking each
cylinder and using both heads.
Select option 4 from the menu to start this test.
The program displays the number of each cylinder it finds. For example,
with a 20MB hard disk, the first message you see is:
Current cylinder is
The cylinder number counts down to 0.
At the end of the test, you see a table of the results of the test. For
example, for a 20MB hard disk with no bad tracks, you see:
BAD TRACKS .....................
READ ERROR TRACKS ..............
GOOD
Press ENTER to return to the menu
Press
when you have viewed the table.
Enter

Run all above checks

To run all the tests on the menu in sequence, press 5 and then
When you choose this option, all checks for the hard disk drives and
controller are performed automatically in sequential order. Although you do
not start each test, you must still supply the appropriate responses to progress
from one test to the next. The first prompt you see is:
The data on the highest physical cylinder may be
destroyed by this check.
Enter Y to start this check.
Enter N to return to the menu.
Press Y and then
to continue with the test. If no errors occur, the
Enter
TRACKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
to continue with the test.
Enter
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Enter.
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