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- From: jtsalo@walrus.megabaud.fi (Jarmo Salo)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Not valid rigid disk block...
- Date: 9 Mar 1996 18:34:09 +0200
- Organization: Megabaud Oy,Helsinki,Finland
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- I have Maxtor's 245-megabyte hard disk (model MAXTOR-7245,
- rev. 1560). I used it in my Amiga 3000 until Amiga's power
- supply broke.
-
- The problem: Amiga does not recognize disk as a _valid rigid
- disk block_ device. I had a possibility to test it in other Amiga,
- but the system saw it as an unformatted disk. We tried to run
- program named "RDTools" or something like that, but the program
- hung up. AmigaDOS's HDToolbox said that the device is unknown type.
-
- So, is there any way to restore information from that kind of disk?
-
- Or is this a hardware specific problem? It was an overvoltage
- that destroyed my power supply (regulators were almost melted), but
- when my Amiga was tested with an undamaged power supply, everything
- worked normally (that damned Maxtor's disk was not connected then).
- The disk operates quite normal: it spins when power is turned on, and
- the SCSI controller recognizes its ID and model. But maybe it is
- possible that drive's circuit board has some problems...?
-
- As far as I remember, at the moment when the power supply exploded
- there were no disk activity. It is quite unbelievable that the
- overvoltage would destroy just the few blocks where disk information
- is kept...
-
- Any information or help is very important, because I have megabytes
- of unbackuped files on this disk...
-
- jtsalo@megabaud.fi
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