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- From: khan@cheshire.oxy.edu (Onnie Lynn Winebarger)
- Subject: Re: A1200 HD question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.082649.7882@cheshire.oxy.edu>
- Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA. USA
- References: <1993Jan9.191116.20831@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1993Jan10.171708.8502@medsys.rn.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 08:26:49 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1993Jan10.171708.8502@medsys.rn.com> wendell@medsys.rn.com (Wendell Dingus) writes:
- >ccb8m@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Charles C. Bundy) writes:
- >
- >>For all you Amiga "guru's" :)
- >
- >>I've had my 1200HD/80 for a week and a half. The problem is this :)
- >>My Maxtor HD is acting flakey. It started giving me block errors as
- >>I put stuff onto the HD. Needless to say I immediately whipped out
- >>HDtoolbox and did a "verify drive." Five times I ran it and five
- >>times it came back with "No Errors"! However when I would attempt to
- >>read certain files I still got the "block error" requestor.
- >
- >>OK me thinks, let us do a low level format! Well I tried and tried AND
- >>tried, but it never worked! Nothing was ever deleted! No Low level format
- >>was ever done! Before I yell at C= or my dealer, I thought I'd see if
- >>I was doing anything wrong.
- >
- >>Can anybody give me any clues?
- >
- >Is this a Maxtor 2585AT you're using? I'm going to be installing two of these
- >particular drives for customers in 1200's either Tuesday or Wednesday of this
- >week. I sure hope they work ok! Has anyone verified whether they have the
- >64K maxtransfer bug many 2.5" drives have? I thought I read that they didn't.
- >
- >
- >--
- >-- Wendell Dingus internet: wendell@medsys.rn.com //
- >-- uucp: uunet!gator!medsys!wendell Only AMIGA! \X/
-
- Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought you couldn't low-level format any
- IDE hard drive. This could present a real problem :).
- Lynn
- khan@cheshire.oxy.edu
-