Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!iuvax!valnet!joseph From: joseph@valnet (Joseph Hillenburg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Raaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Message-ID: Date: 19 Aug 90 07:20:29 GMT References: <03896.AA03896@sosaria.imp.com> Organization: Valley BBS Network Lines: 47 wizard@sosaria.imp.com (Chris Brand) writes: > > 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? > > > > -- > ------------------------------------ > Chris Brand - wizard@sosaria.imp.com > "Justice is the possession and doing > of what one is entitled to" - Platon > ------------------------------------ Yes...is there anything wrong with that? ************************************************************************** * -Joseph Hillenburg (Sultan of Asm) * "Those are't bugs!" * * Addresses: * "Just undesirable features!"-Me * * INET: joseph@valnet.uucp ************************************* * UUCP: ...!iuvax!valnet!joseph * Call CompSci BBS * 1-812-873-440 * * MAIL: 1709 West Gray * 3/12/24 *9:30pm-7:30amEST* * MAIL: Bloomington, Indiana ************************************* * MAIL: 47401 United States * Amiga is king, and you can't * * Mail replies requested * tell me any different! * **************************************************************************