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- From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Intermittent Quantum drive problems
- Message-ID: <e0Y102Hx21NG01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 17:40:26 GMT
- References: <1992Sep11.010228.9988@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Reply-To: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation
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- Don,
-
- I'm having similar problems with my Quantum 240LPS, and I've heard a number
- of dissatisfied people on the net. Symptoms: I/O would halt, and the green
- LED on my controller would stay on. The only solution was to power off and
- power back on. Sometimes that didn't work, and the system needed to "rest"
- for a few minutes before the drive would work.
-
- Often, prior to the hangup, it would hang for short periods of time, then
- start again, but that's always a harbinger of a full crash within a minute or
- two.
-
- It seems to happen only during large amounts of I/O (examples are a wholesale
- copying of one 50%-full 80-meg partition to another, and capturing a large
- terminal session with no intervening input from the user).
-
- Two of my friends, each with an A3000, bought the 240LPS the same day I did,
- and they have no problems. Mine is in an A2000. I'm reasonably sure that
- the problem lies in the drive, because I replaced my A2090A controller with a
- TrumpCard Professional, and the problem persists.
-
- However, I can't exclude that it is the A2000 itself, and not the drive. I
- get a green screen when I boot, which I understand means that some of my chip
- RAM is flakey. However, it's never hurt anything in the past, so I haven't
- bothered to get that taken care of. I can't exclude that that is the root of
- my current problem.
-
- I'd be interested in knowing how your problem gets resolved.
-
- What model Amiga are you running?
-
- Terry Carroll - tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com - 408/992-2152
- The opinions presented above are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
-