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From: jschober@gnh-starport.cts.com (Joey Schober)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: CMS problems??
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Date: 6 Sep 89 03:16:24 GMT
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I've been having some problems of late with my CMS hard disk, and I was
wondering if any of y'all had encountered anything similar.  First the hardware
setup: I'm running a IIgs (ROM 01) under P8 1.8 and BASIC.SYSTEM 1.2.  The CMS
drive is an SD60 connected to a CMS SCSI II card, dated (if memory serves)
11/87 (that's the sticker on the ROM).

Ok, the problem is: Just about 2 weeks ago, in the middle of the night, my BBS
crashed while a user was uploading a file.  I knew I was low on space on /CMS2,
and the file being uploaded would've filled that space, so I just called it a
logic bug in my code.  (The drive, BTW, was stuck IN USE -- I came down and hit
RESET [the only way to unlock the system], and did a C0E1:80 from the monitor
to reset the drive...)  Turns out that both /CMS and /CMS2 were totally
scrambled -- corrupted blocks and bitmaps, that sort of thing.  I recovered
what I could, reformatted both partitions and copied everything back, and
figured it was over with.

Wrong.  Now the drive =frequently= locks up during an I/O operation -- the
system just freezes and the drive stays IN USE; heaven only knows what it's
doing.  This can happen in any application, P8 or GS/OS (using System Disk
5.0).  If it happens during a read, no harm is done; if during a write, I lose
data again.  It never did this before, in the 1-yr or so I've had the drive in
24-hour service.  I've found that leaving the drive off for a couple hours
seems to make the problem go away for a few days, but then it comes back again.
 :((

Anyone have any ideas??

Thanks!
 
     Joseph F. Schober, Sysop, StarPort BBS [703/931-0947 - 3/12/2400 baud]

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