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From: phil@sivax.UUCP (Phil Hunt)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Micah Failure HELP!
Message-ID: <333@sivax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Sep-86 18:09:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: sivax.333
Posted: Wed Sep 10 18:09:36 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 12-Sep-86 22:19:20 EDT
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Organization: System Industries, Milpitas, Ca
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Hello everybody,

   I just had a problem with my MicahDrive (AT-20).

   I decided to reforat my Micahdrive because I was getting low on space
and my disk was getting VERY fragmented, so....

   I backed up all the files to 26 floppies using HFS Backup, everything
there is a ok.

   Then I booted a floppy with MicahManager 1.55 on it to reformat my Drive.
I said Format/scan/repair, it put up a dialog saying 'This will destroy all
data on the disk", I clicked OK.

   Then it should have put up a window showing where it was in the format.
Instead, the 'Initialize/Test' main menu item was still highlited (ie, thinking
it was executing something) and the cursor changed to a watch, but no format.

   I let it 'run' for 4 hours just to be sure, then killed it (rebooted), and
tried again, this time MicahManager said 'Cannot find disk size configuration 
tables, cannot continue', and cleared all the options but FORMAT/SCAN/REPAIR.

   I clicked this and it sat (like the first time) overnight without formatting.

   Does anyone have an idea about this???  It seems to have clobbered the disk
but sat in a loop somewhere at the beginning of the format.

   By the way, the firmware is 1/86 206 on the SCSI board.  Micah said to try
another MICAHMANAGER program, seems unlikely, but I will try tonight.

Phil Hunt
..calma!sivax!phil