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From: pepers@enme3.ucalgary.ca (Brad Pepers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Syquest/2091 problems
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.213407.29318@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
Date: 13 Feb 91 21:34:07 GMT
References: <1991Feb12.064904.21844@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> <18ad5c7f.ARN2b0b@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au>
Reply-To: pepers@enme3.UUCP (Brad Pepers)
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In article <18ad5c7f.ARN2b0b@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au writes:
>In article <1991Feb12.064904.21844@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>, Brad Pepers writes:
>
>> I am having trouble with my Syquest/2091 combo. Its not the reselection
>> problem I've seen here (I have the trouble with ONLY the Syquest attached).
>> My problem has the following symptoms:
>> 
>> 	- I format a cartridge and all is fine
>> 	- Over time, things start going bad...
>> 	- After a while, the drive starts 'chattering' to itself or
>> 	  my Amiga even when I'm not doing any drive access! I can
>> 	  usually stop the chatter by doing a directory. Some directories
>> 	  will fix the problem, others won't.
>> 	- Now if I try 'verify data' in the HDToolBox either I get a lot
>> 	  of errors or I get an 'Error in rigid block - low level format'!
>> 	  I can still use the drive but this means that sometime in the
>> 	  near future, a total crash will occur!
>
>
>G'day,
>
>I had a similar but totally different problem once, with my hard drive.
>
> (Very helpful explaination of problem deleted)
>
>PRECIS: Reseat your controller card.
>
>Hope that's of some use.
>
>>    Brad Pepers (pepers@enme.ucalgary.ca or pepers@cpsc.ucalgary.ca)
>
>Dac
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Thanks for your help. I'm afraid I'm not having the same problem. I have
COMPLETELY dusted out my 2000. I have reset all cables, boards, and chips
in sockets. Nothing fixes it! As I sit here right now, my drive occasionally
reads (complete with the read light going on). I know if I go out and do
a directory on Work:Forth/Forth, it will stop but I'm too p*ssed at it to
bother!!!! The dealer who sold it to me says that they have now heard that
there was some trouble with some 2091 and syquest versions (anyone at C=
able to fill in details of which combos?). The F3B version of syquest I
have could supposedly be better so I'm looking into getting a newer
version. I wish I knew what version my 2091 ROMS were!

Thanks again!

    Brad Pepers (pepers@enme.ucalgary.ca or pepers@cpsc.ucalgary.ca)