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From: vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Access Trouble
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.170950.16895@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 10 Apr 91 17:09:50 GMT
References: <1991Apr06.071210.20559@afit.af.mil>
Reply-To: vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1991Apr06.071210.20559@afit.af.mil> bhodges@afit.af.mil (Bill Hodges) writes:
>I've got a Supra 20M drive and after I work for a while if I try to access
>files the BUSY light stays on or flickers and I get the box about "Damaged
>Data".  If I shut the drive off for a while it acts right again.  Before
>it gets any worse, what's the best way to find the problem and where should
>I start looking?
>
I had this kind of problem with a BMS-100 -> CMI 6426 drive combo.  I made
things a little better by ensuring adequate cooling, and by ensuring the
power supply voltages were right on.  Then I backed up everything and low-
level formatted again.  This helped for about a year, but the CMI eventually
died.  Hope your Supra isn't goin' south.

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