wierd SpinRite 6 error !

[bilfast]

hi people...

having used spinrite i've never seen it crash. but it has crashed on my laptop. its a toshiba 40gb disk. one minute after it starts scanning the drive it fails with the error "Division Overflow Error" at 394A

i don't think its a faulty disk because scandisk is doing a fine job. so what's wrong?

seen two others with a similar situation.

http://iamyouruser.blogspot.com/2006/02/spinrite-division-overflow-error.html

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?threadid=264284

but they didn't figure out what it is.

Please help!!

 

[kestrel1]

Have you tried re-creating the boot CD? It may just be a bad CD.

 

[bilfast]

Yes, i've tried it many times. Tried to use a floppy, same error. Moved the disk to a desktop computer and same error. Used an old 2GB laptop disk with spinrite and it completes fine under the same setup/tools.

could it be 40Gb, the size being too big for spinrite?

 

[jurgen36]

I had similar problems with Spinright. I finally gave up with it. However it could have been that I use 10 300Gbyte drives maybe it got confused. I experimented and it works ok with 2 drives but does not check the full capacity.
Good luck

Jurgen

 

[kestrel1]

I would be inclined to give up with Spinrite. It soiund like it doesn't like large drives. Is this an older version than the current version 6?
If so it could be that the older version doesn't like larger disc's.