Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!kodak!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!ousrvr!ousrvr!dm From: dm@stekt2.oulu.fi (Hannu Helminen ti) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Problems with A590 and Quantum!!! Message-ID: Date: 17 Feb 91 23:29:13 GMT Sender: news@ousrvr.oulu.fi Distribution: comp Organization: University of Oulu, Dept. of EE, Finland Lines: 41 I have an A500 (Kickstart 1.3) and A590. My 20-meg hard disk got full and I bought a Quantum 210 S. I set it up and it worked well... for a while. Then one day, it would not boot! The green drive led flashed and flashed for a couple of minutes, then appeared a hand asking me to insert the Workbench diskette :( I tried re-formatting and re-prepping and re-everything, but nothing seemed to help. All I got was mysterious error messages ("Error 19 on device open" "Please check your hardware and try again"). HDToolBox hanged trying to check scsi address 0. All in all, it seemed my drive was not responding to anything. Then a person wiser than me suggested that it might be a problem with RigidDiskBlocks, FileSystemBlocks etc. that are stored on the disk. So I disabled autobooting and mounted the system using BindDrivers. And it indeed helped! The disk seemed OK. I rewrote the FileSystem and enabled autobooting and it worked like a dream. For a while. You may guess the rest. A few days ago, it again refused to boot. Same symptoms... execpt! BindDrivers wont help this time! So, I am asking this: Is it really possible that if something goes wrong in the disk (RDB, for instance), A590 will not let me to destroy it, and rebuild the system from the scratch!?! Is there anything I can do? (Except formatting the drive with another, smarter computer, so that there surely wont be any information that would confuse A590) Is there any way I could program the A590 myself, destroying those blocks by hand? (Or do I have to use a huge magnet :) ?) Needless to say, any help would be greatly appreciated. -dm -- _| _ _ Hannu dm@stekt.oulu.fi // Does anybody else in here (_|| | ) Helminen dm@otitsun.oulu.fi \X/ feel the way I do?