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- Subject: Quantum HD Trouble. Disk drive mechanics and others Help!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.070233.1997@actrix.gen.nz>
- From: keith@actrix.gen.nz (Keith Stewart)
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 07:02:33 GMT
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
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- Before I take my controller card in for checking I would like some opinions
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- During a reboot my 2nd HD ( Quantum) 120meg decided to die. All the data
- on it was trashed and the RDB trashed as well. After numerous attempts
- with DiskSalv and Quarterback Tools I gave up and reformated it.
-
- I am using 2.04. I have an A2000 with A2630 card with 4 meg of 32bit mem
- and GVPSeries II FAAASTROM 3.07 with 40meg Quantum on the card as well
- as 4 meg of 16bit mem.
-
- Well I have had trouble reboots where the second drive seemed to hang
- during the boot procedure but turning the computer off/on quickly seemed
- to get the boot sequence to finish OK. SYS: is on the 40 meg which never
- had or has a problem.
-
- Any way having reformating it I noticed the 120 meg was very slow and tested
- it with loading PAgestream 2.0 found it took 20 seconds to start the program
- where as on the 40 meg it loaded in six seconds.
-
- Deciding I must have formated it with the OFS I loaded FAAASTPREP and reformat
- ed it. I decided to try a lowlevel format knowing that Quantums usually wont
- do this. But the drive started clicking but the drive light was off
-
- Upon reboot the drive could not be seen or identified with FAAAASTPREP i.e it
- couldnot get any info. Another reboot and info could be got but no format
- was possible with FAAAASTPREP.
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- I took the 120 to my local Amiga shop ( hi Mark) and they formatted it OK
- and said there was no problem with it. My cable between the drives abd controller
- seems OK as well.
-
- Back home I still have the trouble rebooting without the OFF/ON ploy and when
- I tried to repartition the drive FAAASTPREP ( putting 2 in partition gadget
- ) says "this function can only be used on a vaild read/write unit.
-
- As well the head numbers now reads 1 when it used to read 3 but I can still
- use it.
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- So be fore I get the controller checked ( no probs with the 40meg) any ideas
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- Sorry for the length
-
- Keith
-