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From: WW8ZOPER@MIAMIU.BITNET (William Walborn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Problems with Harddisk
Message-ID: <90207.105810WW8ZOPER@MIAMIU.BITNET>
Date: 26 Jul 90 15:58:10 GMT
References: <1990Jul24.154630.15434@calgary.uucp>
Organization: Miami University - Academic Computer Service
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In article <1990Jul24.154630.15434@calgary.uucp>, baltes@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
(Hansjorg Baltes) says:
>
>HELP:,
>I have a problem with my stock A2500/20 and the 40 MB "pergodion" (or so)     .
>drive
>Whenever I leave the computer on for more than a couple of hours, my hard disk
>won't start.  I mean that
 
   I thought I jump in too, since I have experienced similar problems
recently.  I have a A2000 with 68000, 3 meg memory and a Rodime 43meg
drive, 2090A controller.  The previous day I experienced that upon turning on
my system, the harddrive just clicked, clicked,.... but, did not spin up as
is usual after the first click.  The harddisk refused to boot several times,
I opened up the Amiga jiggled and pressed connections, then it decided to
boot, but I did not notice any obvious problem source.
   After it started working, I used the system and during a copy command
the harddisk had a clicking-fit and shut down, the Amiga system stayed
up with no gurun.  So I am considering the possibility of lose/bad
power wire to the drive?
   Same fiddle process again yielded good results and it works for now...
Sound familiar?  No data corruption has occurred yet...
 
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