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From: mercurio@crash.CTS.COM (Phil Mercurio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Close Call follow-up
Message-ID: <1461@crash.CTS.COM>
Date: Sun, 2-Aug-87 05:12:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: crash.1461
Posted: Sun Aug  2 05:12:03 1987
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Organization: Crash TS, San Diego, CA
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Keywords: Amiga Supra hard drive validation disk


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Thanks for all of the replies to my "Close Call" report on the
problem I had with a Supra 20MB hard disk.  I agree that it
was probably the disk validator at work.

As a follow-up:  the validation occurred again a couple of times
the next morning.  I called Supra, and they suggested that I 
reformat the disk.  It took several hours to back everything up,
reformat, and restore the contents of the disk.  Make that many
hours (like 6 or 7).  It seemed to have fixed the problem, but
over the course of the past few weeks it's gone through the
validation dance a couple of times, fortunately, with much less
stress on my part.  I'm beginning to think it has more to do
with my disk being near full rather than anything I might have
done to the disk, since I believe it's occurred only when the
disk was over 95% full.  That's not a very scientific observation,
however.

I may decide to have this unit swapped out for a new one, if the
problem persists.  If so, I'll post the results.

Thanks again,

Phil Mercurio
DevWare, Inc.
mercurio@pnet01.CTS.COM