Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!unizh!gorgo!blatter From: blatter@gorgo.ifi.unizh.ch (Martin Blatter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Raaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Message-ID: <1990Aug20.110300.3818@gorgo.ifi.unizh.ch> Date: 20 Aug 90 11:03:00 GMT References: <03904.AA03904@sosaria.imp.com> Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science Lines: 57 In article <03904.AA03904@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. I've never experienced a "Key already set" under 2.0. Did you use 1.3? Have you checked which file was corrupt? (You can use the keyword "KEYS" with the list command to see the key numbers of each file) >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): Mine doesn't crash more often than my A2500. >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. Have you tried to format your drive with another Controller/Software? I experienced that scsi.device sometimes doesn't seem to work with two drives reliably - it crashes when copying large files from one drive to the other - Do you have both, Quantum and Imprimis connected to your A3000? >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. Although I can understand your reaction, I still don't believe that it's possible to completely ruin a hard disk that way. I'm sure that this is not the A3000's fault. >Still anybody around calling the Amiga a professional system? Still anybody around calling an IBM PC a professional system? >Chris Brand - wizard@sosaria.imp.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin A. Blatter blatter@ifi.unizh.ch (University of Zurich) cbmehq!cbmswi!zethos!blatter@cbmvax.commodore.com "There's a light where the darkness ends" (Taupin) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin A. Blatter blatter@ifi.unizh.ch (University of Zurich) (home, sweet home --->) cbmehq!cbmswi!zethos!blatter@cbmvax.commodore.com "There's a light where the darkness ends" (Taupin)