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From: jharres@sleepy.bmd.trw.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: STE DMA bug
Message-ID: <1311.27f053cf@sleepy.bmd.trw.com>
Date: 27 Mar 91 15:11:59 GMT
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Well I finally got bit last night.  The wonderful STE DMA (read harddrive)
bug got me.  After doing a couple hours of work on the computer with probably
25 or so disk accesses it gave me the "somethings wrong with the disk drive"
alert.  I then could no longer see the partitions even though the hard disk
driver would run.  I have an ICD plus host adapter and a syquest drive.
   Does this error (the STE DMA problem) always hammer the disk in the same
manner?  If so, what is necessary to go and recover the drive.  No I didn't
have a backup as I've had it only 2 weeks and wasn't sure if I liked my
layout yet.  (Lesson learned though :-(  ).
  I'll be contacting Atari about a warranty problem in the mean time.

Thanks for any help.

Jim Harres          jharres@doc.bmd.trw.com