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From: steven@cwi.nl (Steven Pemberton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari Hard Drives
Message-ID: <86@piring.cwi.nl>
Date: Tue, 6-Oct-87 09:42:36 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  6 09:42:36 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Oct-87 04:00:46 EDT
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Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <698@tellab5.UUCP> etan@tellab3.UUCP (Nate Stelton) writes:
> 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.
[...]
> A couple days ago, I encountered a new problem.  [...]
> I then got a dialog box stating that data on drive D 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?
Yes, I had similar problems. Access times went down and down, and the
disk started to thrash on all disk-accesses. Then I started getting
problems like the "disk damaged" alert, and rebooting would give
different desktops, and every now and then the right one. So I usually
just had to reboot a few times to get it back. Then it died
irrevocably, and I had to send it to be repaired. I don't remember
what they said they had to repair though.

Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam; steven@cwi.nl