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- Path: news.primenet.com!krishna
- From: Glenn Saunders <krishna@primenet.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: HD problem
- Date: 31 Jan 1996 01:36:00 -0700
- Organization: Primenet (602)395-1010
- Sender: root@primenet.com
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- The mortal Adrian Boone wrote:
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- : This sounds suspiciously like the problems I had with my first A1200 HD - I got
- : it from Diamond with an 80 MB drive not long after the A1200 first came out and
- : by the time the problems arose, they had gone bust and I couldn't get a
- : replacement. Anyway, like you, I had bits of my drive which broke a format and
- : I managed to get around most of the bad blocks by creating small partitions
-
- I found out what the problem was. It's actually 2 different things. 1,
- I didn't remove the terminator SIPPs from the Zeus controller, and 2, VMM
- is causing problems that don't screw up normal disk access, but screw up
- CDDA reading and SCSI toolbox functions.
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- As long as I don't run VMM, all is well. That was, after I re-low-level
- formatted the drive and started over again. That was the only way to be
- sure the drive was clean.
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