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From: alj@bilver.UUCP (Arthur Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Hard drive validating
Summary: Under newest OS 2.0, year-long validation
Keywords: 2.0, Hard Drive, Validating
Message-ID: <1023@bilver.UUCP>
Date: 28 Sep 90 17:42:02 GMT
Reply-To: alj@bilver.UUCP (Arthur Johnson)
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
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 I just received and installed the newest version of Workbench 2.0 on my A3000,
and now a strange problem has cropped-up on my second hard drive.  Whenever
I format it (it's a Rodime, by the way), it stays in the "Validating" state for
at least an hour.  Info tells me that the disk is 99% full (even though I just
formatted it).  After some amount of time (an hour or so), Info tells me that
the drive's OK, and it's 0% full.  Strange, very strange.
 Anyone else have a similar problem?  It's irritating to wait so long for the
drive to become available, and I don't know what the problem is.  It's in one
big 43M partition.
 -Arthur