Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!isc-br!hawk!rsami!rick From: rick@rsami.spoami.com (Rick Schaeffer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Raaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Message-ID: Date: 18 Aug 90 12:34:07 GMT References: <03896.AA03896@sosaria.imp.com> Sender: uucp@hawk.isc-br.com (UUCP Login) Lines: 31 >In article <03896.AA03896@sosaria.imp.com> wizard@sosaria.imp.com (Chris Brand) writes: > >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. > > >Still anybody around calling the Amiga a professional system? > Sure, I do! I've had an Amiga 3000 running 24 hours a day (under DOS 2.0, too) since I got it in early July with nary a crash that I didn't cause myself. Was the Imprimis mounted internally or externally? Is it the only drive in the system or are there other drives in there? The biggest problem I had was getting 2 internal & 1 external drives working together and the problem turned out to be the "Reselection" problem I've written about before. Be SURE that you have set "Supports Reselection" to "NO" on all your drives. The symptoms I had until I changed this switch were very similar to what you describe. -- Rick Schaeffer UUCP: uunet!isc-br.isc-br.com!ricks ISC-Bunker Ramo ricks@isc-br.isc-br.com Box TAF-C8 Phone: (509)927-5114 Spokane, WA 99220