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- From: ekrieger@quasar.hacktic.nl (Eric Krieger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Help with hard drive, please?
- Message-ID: <ekrieger.039i@quasar.hacktic.nl>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 05:49:20 GMT
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- Jason 'KodaK' Balicki (kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu) wrote:
-
- > Hello, I've recently come accross a used st-251 drive, and I've worked
- > with this beast for quite a while now and if I don't get something
- > done about it I'm going to hurl it in the local toxic waste dump.
-
- > Here's what's going on: I get the drive formatted (2-127 for System2.0:
- > and 128-819 for Work:) install the system software, install some other
- > piddily junk (fonts, jrcomm in the work: partrition) and it works fine for
- > about a half hour with minimal disk useage. After a while I start
- > getting "Sector xxx has a read error", something about an unreadable
- > header, and a score of other junk.
-
- > Am I doing something wrong?
- > Could the drive just be hot (I've got the cover off, so no airflow
- > through the vents, I put a fan on it just to see, nothing to report so
- > far.)
-
- Hmm, it could be a temperature-related problem. You could try to
- back-up the HD, and perform a low-level format, ADos format and
- restore. But do the low-level format only when the drive is warmed
- up, let's assume an 1/2 hour after starting up your equipment.
-
- When this doesn't help, i'm afraid there's really something with it.
-
- > --Jason Balicki
- > kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
-
- Good luck and an Happy New Year.
-
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