Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bu.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!ASNGAT.ASN.NET!mark From: mark@ASNGAT.ASN.NET ("Mark Preston") Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro Subject: General Failure on SST225 Message-ID: Date: 31 Jul 90 12:43:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 25 HELP!!! Last night as I was getting ready to use my rainbow to edit a file, I got a General failure while reading drive Abort, Retry or Ignore? Since I had problems in the past with loose cables on the drive, I opened the box up and reset all the boards and cables. I closed the box and booted off a floppie and ran chkdsk. I lost a directory. While restoring that directory, I got the same message as it was restoring the last floppy. HELP!!!!!!! I bought the drive from SS. Its a 20MB, SST-225 or is it a SST-255? Thanks for any help offered. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Preston, VAX System Manager mark@asngat.asn.net (internet) Alabama Supercomputer Center mark@uahvax1 (bitnet) 686 Discovery Dr. mark@asnuab (bitnet) Huntsville, AL 35806 7786 ::mark (SPAN) (205)895-7431