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- From: Ken Hughes <zener@iol.ie>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 850Mb IDE hd's on A1200 Help req
- Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 00:25:50 +0000
- Organization: Ireland On-Line
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- Neil O'Rourke wrote:
- >
- > 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!!!
-
- You dont mention the physical size of the HDD but if it is a 3.5inch
- drive you may need to do one or maybe both of the following:
-
- Upgrade the power supply to the Golliath as the Brick really is not up
- to the job of long term usage.
-
- Because of the space restrictions inside a 1200 the HDD runs very hot,
- a panel mount fan secured to the top of the 1200 should keep it cool.
-
- I know of several people here in Ireland who have lost a hard disk for
- the above reasons. particularly large 3.5inch drives. I modified
- surplus pc power supplies to power their machines result no more
- problems. But the fan would still be usefull !!!
-
- Hope this is of some help. let me know of any developments.
-
- zener :-)
-
- >
- > Neil O'Rourke
- > neilo@m140.aone.net.au
- >
- > "Naturally, we maintain plausable denial" - Cancer Man, The X Files
-