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From: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Different Quantum HD in recent A3000s?
Keywords: Quantum LP105S
Message-ID: <1991May14.142211.10404@javelin.sim.es.com>
Date: 14 May 91 14:22:11 GMT
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hull@hao.ucar.edu (Howard Hull) writes:
>Hey.  The hard disk is _weird_; the HDToolbox says it is a Quantum LP105S.
>What it likes to do is spin down while I am working in an Editor and am not
>actively accessing the disk.

Sounds like a broken drive to me, I'd put your warranty to use. The
LP105S that came with my A3000 does not do this.

>In the deep recesses of my remeberings, I recalled that it was also
>possible to back up the Rigid Disk Block Partition to machine readable media.

>I must have been remembering stuff posted about Microbotics Hardframe; like
>doing it with RDPrep and redirecting it to a file.  What is the AmigaDOS
>equivalent to RDPrep?

Yes, you were thinking of Microbotics RDPrep program. Its AmigaDOS
equivalent is HDToolBox. But as you've noticed, HDToolBox does not have
the ability to create a mountlist or save the RDB to a file. If you
happen to have a Hardframe (or have a friend that owns one), RDPrep will
work with the A3000's controller.
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