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- From: allas@lyseo.otol.fi (Jari Ketola)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Problems with Quantum Atlas XP34300
- Date: 26 Jan 1996 20:20:06 GMT
- Organization: Oulun Lyseon Lukio - Get real
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- I recently bought an Quantum Atlas XP34300 harddisk and
- encountered problems shortly after formating it. I was
- adviced to format the drive with the following parameters:
-
- 4096 Cylinders
- 32 Heads
- 64 Block per Track
- 2048 Blocks per Cylinder
-
- in order to obtain exactly the 2^32 byte limit. The drive
- suggested different values, but I didn't pay any attention
- to them because I was told that it's OK to do so with
- SCSI drives.
-
- The drive worked just fine but right after putting the
- computer case back and rebooting the machine problems started.
- When several users (I run a BBS) accessed the same partition
- simultaneously the whole system hung. When I checked the partition
- with disksalv, the same thing happened. On a "random block"
- (80000-100000 I guess) in either hash check or the preliminary
- scan, the disksalv just froze and didnt respond to anything.
- I had to disable the "Auto mount" option for the partition in order
- to get the system boot to WB again. I even tried lowering the
- maxtransfer to 0xffff, but it had little effect.
-
- I would appreciate any suggestions that might help me solve
- this problem. I have an A3000/030 (I dont know the buster
- etc. revisions) with all the scsi devices (Seagate Hawk
- 1G, Seagate 'Whatever' 660Mb and Quantum Atlas 4G) installed
- in a separate tower case connected to A3k via a 2m (6.6ft)
- long ribbon-cable.
-
- -Jari Ketola
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