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From: parris@mit-caf.UUCP (Patrice Parris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Hard Disk Problem
Message-ID: <897@mit-caf.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 88 16:39:49 GMT
Reply-To: parris@mit-caf.UUCP (Patrice Parris)
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Greetings
	 I have a friend who has no net access and the following
problem.  He has a 40MB Miniscribe Drive with the A2090 controller.
Every so often, he gets a requester which proclaims a read/write error
on the hard drive.  If he hits 'RETRY' immediately, it reappears.
However, if he waits for the heads to park after the 30 second
inactivity period and then retries, everything is fine.  He hasn't
lost any data yet, but his girlfriend ( a computer novice) is using
the 2000 to write her Master's thesis and the requesters are making
her nervous (yes, they know about backups).
	He is not running in overscan mode.  I gave him a copy of the
new CBM driver which came down the pike a while ago, but he says his 
driver is the same length and so he thinks he already has it.  Are the
old and new drivers the same length?
	Any and all help would be sincerely appreciated!!  Thanks!


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         Patrice Parris    parris@caf.mit.edu       parris@MIT-CAF.UUCP
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