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- From: jdow@BIX.com (Joanne Dow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga SCSI hard drive prepping help!
- Date: 29 Jan 1996 08:02:31 GMT
- Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation
- Message-ID: <4ehuun$9te@news2.delphi.com>
- References: <4dgq64$snh@alpha.ftech.net> <xAuCqMD4FC8aez4@_crisi.blackbox.shnet.org>
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- In article <xAuCqMD4FC8aez4@_crisi.blackbox.shnet.org>,
- CRISI@BLACKBOX.shnet.org (Christian) wrote:
- >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>
- >
- >Try to lowlevel-format the HD.
-
- Might as well - but the HDToolBox "verify data on drive" option might also work.
- Before formatting OR verifying back it up of course. He will have to replace it
- soon enough. But he might get a few more months service out of it. (When a drive
- starts sprouting low level errors like this it is usually very close to being
- an exotic paperweight containing a collection of metal Frisbees.)
-
- >Greetings
- >
- >--
- >Christian Wasner (CRISI/ PHANTASM)
- >crisi@blackbox.shnet.org
- >Sorry, but you haven't won a cookie in today's lottery
-
- {^_^} Joanne Dow, Amiga Exchange Editor on BIX, aka The Wizardess
- jdow@bix.com, jdow@delphi.com, jdow@mci.newscorp.com
- Who shuns low level formatting drives as much as possible. I just let
- the verify function reassign the bad blocks to good ones while they
- last. When they are gone the drive cannot format anyway, most of the
- time.
-
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