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- From: CRISI@BLACKBOX.shnet.org (Christian)
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- Organization: .oO PHANTASM Oo.
- Subject: Re: Amiga SCSI hard drive prepping help!
- Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 23:56:10 +0100
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- It was 16.01.1996 at 17:15:54 when edward@rushton.ftech.co.uk (Ed)
- wrote about "Amiga SCSI hard drive prepping help!":
- Ed> Does anybody know what the procedure is for cleaning and reprepping a
- Ed> SCSI drive on the Amiga?
- Ed>
- Ed> It is 1.7gb in size and is connected via a GVP scsi interface into my
- Ed> GVP A1230 accelerator. Due to a tragic series of events, my Hard Disk
- Ed> became riddled with read/write errors (ending in the loss of my BBS).
- Ed>
- Ed> I can easily quick format and write partitions to the drive using
- Ed> Expert Prep that came with the GVP scsi interface but when I come to
- Ed> tdoing a full format or actually installing stuff, it says cant format
- Ed> cylinder 1923 etcetc or says read write error on Dhx:
- Ed>
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- Try to lowlevel-format the HD.
-
- Greetings
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