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- From: nma95nbr@lustudat.student.lu.se (Niklas Brunlid)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Harddisk problems: does wanagi-wachipi ring a bell????
- Date: 3 Apr 1996 08:39:52 GMT
- Organization: Lund University
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- In article "Harddisk problems: does wanagi-wachipi ring a bell????" Peter
- Sterk said:
-
- >Two days ago, I tried to start up my A1200, without success. After booting
- >from floppy, the harddisk (a 730 MB Quantum Lightning attached to an
- >Apollo accelerator/SCSI-II interface) wasn't recognized. With the Apollo
- >installation software, the harddisk appeared unformatted. Luckily, I could
- >restore most of the drive using disksalv (had to use the salvage option).
- >Everything worked fine until this morning when almost the same happened.
- >My 400 MB boot partition showed up as HD0:NDOS; (the rest of the harddisk
- >is used with ShapeShifter and seems ok). I tried to repair HD0: with
- >disksalv. As a result the volume name was now "wanagi-wachipi"; I came
- >across this name the first time it happened, too, but didn't think much of
- >it at the time.
-
- >Anyway, before I try and restore the disk again, I'd like to know if
- >anyone has come across the name 'wanagi-wachipi?' Is it a virus and if
- >not where did this name come from? Interestingly, I've got another SCSI
- >harddisk attached to the controller which isn't affected. As far as I
- >know, the SCSI cabling and termination is OK.
-
- >Any help appreciated,
-
- >Peter
-
-
- I think it's a bogus name given to drives restored by AmigaDOS - I've seen it
- a few times... :(
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- Texas Instruments TI-85 & TI-92 graphing calculators
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