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- From: jmarin@teeri.jmp.fi (Jukka Marin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Checksum problems with hard drives.
- Date: 22 Jan 1996 22:05:23 +0200
- Organization: JMP-Electronics, Kuopio, Finland
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- godfrey2@coventry.ac.uk (Bill the Hamster) writes:
-
- >Hi all. On my 4-partition, 1 Gig hard disk, we have a bit of a problem
- >with files refusing to do work because of checksum errors. We currently use
- >DiskMon to fix them, after deleting the file, but is there any way to
- >prevent this from happening?
-
- Has your SCSI bus been terminated properly? What SCSI interface are you
- using? Is your SCSI cable to long or broken?
-
- >I saw an advert in a magazine, (AFS system I think) saying that FFS on hard
- >disks has a bug, of which I am experiencing.
- >Is this true, and what should I do about it?
-
- Some FFS versions may have had bugs, but I haven't had any problems on my
- machines. I'm running 2.1 and 3.0.
-
- >P.s. Why do people keep telling me that I can't run a 1 Gig hard disk on
- >an Amiga. I've got one and I can.
-
- Sure you can. I have a 1.24 GB disk and I don't even get checksum errors. ;)
-
- -jm
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