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From: tessier@bmerh185.BNR.CA (Daniel Tessier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: DiskFailure
Message-ID: <4688@bwdls58.UUCP>
Date: 18 Oct 90 17:08:40 GMT
References: <1990Oct15.114329.18125@cbnewsi.att.com>
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Reply-To: tessier@bmerh185.BNR.CA (Daniel Tessier)
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In article <1990Oct15.114329.18125@cbnewsi.att.com>,
pfmnews@cbnewsi.att.com (peter.f.meng) writes:
|>
|>	I believe I am having problems with my 2090 controller. I have
|>	a ST-251 disk (non-SCSI) that I have been using for over a year.
|>	Just recently I am trying to recover from file system problems.
|>	I am trying to format the disk (FFS) and I keep getting guru'd
|>	before the format completes. The Guru is typically a 3 or a 4
|>	(addressing or memory error) and is inconsistent.
|>
|>	Also, the one time I did get thru the format and tried to do a restore
|>	from backup floppies (Quarterback) I repeatedly get Guru'd before
|>	the restore completes (also incosistent).
|>
|>	Any advice?? Upgrade to the 2090A controller??
|>
|>					Thanks in advance,
|>					Peter Meng
|>					att!hotlf!pfm

Please post any answers/suggestions/comments. I own two non-SCSI hard
drives (20 and 40 megs), and I started having the same problem recently.
I even tried reformatting the drives with Dr. Ami, and it still doesn't
help much.

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