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From: etan@tellab5.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Atari Hard Drives
Message-ID: <698@tellab5.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 15:43:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: tellab5.698
Posted: Thu Oct  1 15:43:00 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Oct-87 10:04:01 EDT
Reply-To: etan@tellab3.UUCP (Nate Stelton)
Organization: Tellabs, Inc., Lisle, IL
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I'm wondering if anyone else out there is having the same types of problems
with their SH204 20Mb hard drive as I am with mine.

I bought it as part of a 1040ST package in February and didn't use the
computer much until May.  (I use the 1040ST almost exclusively for music
applications with Steinberg PRO-24.)  Then I got into a 4-5 times/week mode
in preparation for a concert.  One week before the show, I went to power the
drive up, but it was dead (the fuse was ok).  I took it back to the dealer
and he replaced the power supply board for about $135 (ouch!). about 1-1/2
weeks later, the same thing happened.  The dealer had to wait 3 weeks for
more power supply boards, then went through several before he found one that
wouldn't blow up.  By this time, the concert had passed, and I was down to
about once-a-week use (crossing my fingers every time I turned it on).

A couple days ago, I encountered a new problem.  My wife and I had the
PRO-24 loaded and were taking a break, when we noticed that the drive was
occasionally chirping on its own.  Thinking this was odd, I decided to exit
the program to see what was going on.  I then got a dialog box stating that
data on drive D (where PRO-24 resides) may be damaged.  I selected cancel,
and the system crashed.  When I rebooted, I got the factory-default desktop
and only one hard-drive ikon that claimed to be empty.  I tried to reboot
several times, and got different desktops, including the right one once, but
with "damaged data".  The last few times, I couldn't even get drive C ikon.

Has anyone else had any of these problems?  Do I have a lemon, or do all
SH204's suck?  Should I sell mine and buy something different?  If so, what?

Nate Stelton