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- From: dwong@waikato.ac.nz
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Quantum LPS120 Woes... 8^(
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.125334.10068@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 12:53:33 +1200
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
- Lines: 36
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- Hi Netfolk,
-
- Well I've just sent my Quantum LPS120 drive back to get repaired/replaced for
- the second time. I bought the drive from our University Computer Centre in
- April and since then I've had problems. The problems occur at cold boot time,
- the drive seems to "think" its spun up but when AmigaDOS boots from the drive I
- get read (and Gackk! write errors) and the odd checksum error. I wait for
- about half a minute to a minute or so, I warm boot the machine and if I'm
- lucky the machine will boot up without a hitch. From then the drive seems to
- behave well and I have no further "phantom" errors. This problem has occurred
- on both the original drive and the replacement. Last night things came to a
- head and the drive seemed to munge things severely. These reported read/write
- errors do not physically exist on disk - I've checked a number of times...
-
- BTW, my hardware setup -:
- Amiga B2000/1 MB Agnus/Std. Denise
- Microbotics 8UP! Memory board popl. to 2MB
- Microbotics HardFrame SCSI controller with v1.9 Driver ROMs (latest version
- from what I know).
-
- Strangely enough, the drive that was going to be replaced by the Quantum
- currently being returned/serviced is being used in my machine right now -
- guess what sort of drive it is... a Seagate 8^)
-
- Are these types of problems commonplace with the LPS drives or am I just plain
- unlucky in this case. Can anyone share any similar experiences... Thanks
- very much.
-
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