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- From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: HELP! A2091 Maxtor 213 going crazy!
- Message-ID: <68920@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 00:14:48 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Oct30.172310.14868@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- >I suspect my A2091 has totally lost all control... Whenever I boot up, it's
- >VERY intent on reading its own information to the point where it takes
- >forever to load amigdos. It keeps reading something (who knows what) for about
- >3-4 minutes. This happens no matter what I boot off of - if the controller
- >is hooked to the drive, it does this.
- >
- >After a few minutes it seems to be back to normal.
- >
- >I have an A2000 (duh) w/ a 30mhz 030 and 8 megs 32-bit ram, maxtor 213(sy?)
- >SCSI disk and I'm running 2.04. Like I said, any amigados disk I boot of of
- >does this (the hard disk starts reading like crazy). Any ideas GREATLY
- >appreciated, this is driving me nuts.
-
- Sounds like your drive keeps needing validated and ADOS is validating it
- during startup. Is there no requester saying so? Is there a program
- leaving a file open on your computer when you turn it off?
-
- Just a thought.
-
- >/-------------------------------\
- >|Amiga and Unix hacker for hire.|
- >|-------------------------------|
- >| mike@turing.org Mike Chapman |
- >\-------------------------------/
- >
- >disclaimer: my views are not mine
-
-
- -Joel
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- / Portal ID: joeles..../...joeles@cup.portal.com /
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