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From: bach@USCN.BITNET (BitNet Users Of Southern Tech)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Drive Troubles
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Date: 8 Aug 89 04:30:55 GMT
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Help!!!!!!!!!     I've got serious problems with my ST277N.  I
was playing a game(Sword of Sodan) and I think it did something to
screw up my drive.
My current system is a 2500 with a A2090a controller and a Rodime
40 meg st506 drive. I also have a Seagate ST277n SCSI drive.

When I try to boot my system I get a requestor saying that GH2: is not
a dos disk.  No problem.  I'll just reformat the drive, after all, I just
did backups yesterday(LUCKY!!).  So when I try to reformat the drive the
format program says that it is formating track 3 of 403.  It stays on
there for a minute or so and then quits....
I figured that I had serious problems so I thought I would go through
the whole low-level format procedure, but when I run Prep it comes back
with                    Drive not Preped
What a wonderful informative error message.  I guess it's obvious what
the next step is, but since I get see it could someone help me out...

I'm at a loss as to what to do next.

BTW, please send your email to me since my feed through the server
has been acting up lately.  Thanks.

Shawn Hayes

PS:  I did power down a couple of times during the reformat procedure
to see if it could clear up the problem.