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From: wizard@sosaria.imp.com (Chris Brand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Raaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Message-ID: <03896.AA03896@sosaria.imp.com>
Date: 18 Aug 90 08:24:23 GMT
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I don't believe it.  Listen what happened to me today.  This morning I (or
better the Amiga) succeeded in destroying my not 1/2 year old Imprimis
Swift 170 megs harddisk.  Yes.  Destroyed.

After another crash while writing to the hd, I had the usual error created
by the braindamaged AmigaDOS - key blabla not set, error validating disk.
After that I tried to do what I always did when this happened (which it did
a lot, since the 3000 crashes about as often as the very first 1000 with
the buggy ram expansion did - you can't work seriously one hour without a
crash):  re-format the drive.  But this time, something was different - I
had read errors on the drive.  Formatting stopped just saying that an error
occured.  So I low-level-formatted the drive and tried again - no success.
I tried a Verfiy Data on disk, which resulted in several bad blocks (that
were not there before) and finally a message saying Hardware Error 18.
 
I can hardly stay calm and not start to flame around what I think of a
computer system that is so #*g?*% that it can ruin a harddisk.  And no,
there were no vibrations that could have caused a head crash, the system is
rock-steady on my desk - and the drive never ever showed the slightest sign
of a problem before.

Still anybody around calling the Amiga a professional system?



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Chris Brand - wizard@sosaria.imp.com
"Justice is the possession and doing 
of what one is entitled to" - Platon
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