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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!statsci!scott
- From: scott@statsci.com (Scott Blachowicz)
- Subject: Re: SCSI disk freezing system...suggestions?
- In-Reply-To: scott@statsci.com's message of Sat, 12 Dec 1992 22:23:35 GMT
- Message-ID: <SCOTT.92Dec14170256@arugula.statsci.com>
- Sender: usenet@statsci.com (Usenet News Account)
- Reply-To: scott@statsci.com
- Organization: Statistical Sciences, Inc., Seattle, WA USA
- References: <SCOTT.92Dec12142335@arugula.statsci.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 01:02:56 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- >>>>> "me" == Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com>
-
- me> Not sure this is really a hardware problem, but...
- Yeah, well...
-
- me> I have an A1000 with
- me> -it's normal 512K
- me> -a MicroBotics StarBoard II with 2 Mb installed
- me> -a SupraDrive 4x4 (v 1.10d or so) SCSI connected to a Seagate 1096N (or
- me> maybe 4096, I forget which) 84 Mb drive.
- me> -AmigaDOS 1.3
-
- me> I've some occasional problems where the HD would just lock up with the
- me> busy light on constantly. I can't hear any disc activity during this
- me> period. Also, the pointer tracking on the display is frozen as well. It
- me> listens to the Ctrl-Amiga-Amiga reboot sequence, but nothing else that I
- me> can tell. Usually, a power cycle would bring it back. The other day it
- me> did its trick; I power cycled everything, but it still hangs trying to
- me> mount one of the partitions at boot time. I have a pseudo-recent (2-3
- me> weeks...low activity level on disc), but I'd like to avoid wiping the
- me> disc if I can. Does anyone have any suggestions for thawing out my
- me> system?
- Hey dummy! Check the cables...a loose cable was causing my problems
- (effectively giving me an unterminated SCSI bus). Maybe I'll go make sure that
- "recovery" disc has the tape driver for my tape drive, and the tar command I
- use for backups, ...
-
- Arggghhh!
-
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