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From: oddjob@oz.plymouth.edu (Andrew C. Stoffel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Harddrive problems
Keywords: Dying Supra harddrive
Message-ID: <1991Feb6.133147.16679@oz.plymouth.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 91 13:31:47 GMT
Reply-To: oddjob@oz.plymouth.edu (Andrew C. Stoffel)
Followup-To: comp.sys.atari.st
Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, N.H. (USA)
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[this a a reposted repost - we just went Internet and have been having
News problems]



My hard disk had a nasty shock last week during a rather heavy bout
with static electricity. It recovered after I turned it off and back
on but now it seems to be flaky. While running minix it made some
funny noises and seemed to slow down. I had to reboot (but I haven't
tried to shut it off and back on yet.....).

(I wrote the above a couple days ago... but we were having News
problems so it didn't appear to get posted to the outside world. My
sincerest apologees to anyone who might have seen it before.... My
hard drive has since continued to behave in such an erratic manner as
described above except I don't have to reboot , just have to wait for
it to start behaving itself again. But it isn't consistent. (My
current theory is that how it behaves depends on the quality of power
getting to the hard drive ..... could nbe wrong but it sounds good :-))

I had planned to do some serious hacking with Minix this semester (to
teach myself enough to write an application in C that I want to be
portable between Minix, Un*x, MiNT and TOS/GEM (TOS/GEM being last
since I've got what is quickly becoming an antique [even for an ST], a
1040STf with TOS 1.0 (6 chip ROMs, empty board space for a blitter,
etc) and by the time I get this program done I'll be able to afford a
TT ...)). But I haven't gone near Minix since the first drive problems
since it had problems with that since Minix almost continually
accesses the harddrive and if it's not there..... **BOOM**
(* Can you tell I've got a degree in English lit. from the rather
convoluted paragraph above... %-> ??*) 


Does anybody know of a utility program that could check the controller
on my harddrive to see if it is ok ??? It's a 30 meg Supra harddrive,
approximately 3 years old (one of the ones with the bad clock chip and
a SCSI port (How do I test something like that ?? ARGH!!!!!!). I
really can't afford to have it die, but if it does I'd like to know
why and what I should replace (if I can.... )

-Andy-

Send all complaints about the wordiness of this article to the Grammar
Police. They know me :-) well......




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