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- From: tomeeee@soho.ios.com (tomeeee)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 850Mb IDE hd's on A1200 Help req
- Date: 30 Mar 1996 23:03:21 GMT
- Organization: Internet Online Services
- Message-ID: <1004.6654T902T2724@soho.ios.com>
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-
- >Hi,
-
- >The company I work for has over 100 remote InfoChannel playstations with
- >the following specs:
- > - Amiga 1200 computer
- > - Segate 850Mb IDE HD
- > - 65W SwitchMode PSW
-
- >Unfortunately, we have in excess of 10% failure within 90 days, and all
- >but one of the failures is due to data corruption on the hard disk, be it
- >the usual read/write error, or courrupted data in the files.
-
- >Is anyone else either having this problem, or have they fixed it? We've
- >tried AFS, but that didn't help. As a last resort, we're building the
- >next lot of playstations with SCSI disks.
-
- >HHEELLPPPP!!!
-
- Sounds like the dreaded MaxTranfer bug.Go into the HDToolBox ,click on
- partition drive select advanced options which will bring down additionl info
- then click on "change" .Now look for the MaxTranfer and change it to
- 0x1ffff for each partition.A1200 ide have trouble with certain drives and
- when writing large data blocks to the drive they would become corrupt.This
- seems to fix it .
-
- Hope this helps.
-
-