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From: pfmnews@cbnewsi.att.com (peter.f.meng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Hard disk problems
Message-ID: <1990Oct12.113708.28520@cbnewsi.att.com>
Date: 12 Oct 90 11:37:08 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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	I recently had file system problems with my hard disk. I 
	tried using sectorama and disk mechanic to recover
	but to no avail. (I have a 2000 with WB 1.3 booting from
	floppy, A2090 controller with ST-251 40 Meg disk, and
	it was operational for over a year and a half)

	Anyway, I decided to start from scratch and rePREP and
	format the disk. The MountList file was already set with
	descriptions for RES0: partition (tracks 0 and 1 for the
	PREP info) and FS1: for the FFS partition (tracks 29-819 I think).

		Mount RES0:			(completed)
		PREP RES0:			(completed)
		FORMAT DRIVE DH0: NAME "SLOWHD"	(completed)
		MOUNT FS1:			(completed)
		FORMAT DRIVE FS1: NAME "FASTHD" FFS
			asks to insert FS1: and hit RETURN
			I hit RETURN and it comes back with
        =>=>=>=>=>=>=>  FORMAT failed -  handler not found. <=<=<=<=<=<=

	I believe this is the same procedure I followed a year ago and
	all the associated files (hddisk, PREP, Mountlist, etc)
	seem to be on the floppy. 
	I had also modified the startup files to delete any hard
	disk references.  I even tried retyping the MountList entries.

	I'm probably missing something obvious.  Any ideas??

					Thanks in advance,
					Peter Meng
					att!hotlf!pfm