Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!cbmvax!schein From: schein@cbmvax.UUCP (Dan Schein CATS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Hard Disk Problem Message-ID: <3623@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 13 Apr 88 12:52:09 GMT References: <897@mit-caf.UUCP> Reply-To: schein@cbmvax.UUCP (Dan Schein CATS) Distribution: na Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 32 In article <897@mit-caf.UUCP> parris@mit-caf.UUCP (Patrice Parris) writes: >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 This really sounds like the OLD HDdisk software. > 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? I don't have a copy of the old drive to compare, but if he/she types out the HDdisk driver (using opt h), and they have the new one, they should see: Version 33 (rev 54) (Tue Nov 3 17:10:45 PST 1987) > Patrice Parris parris@caf.mit.edu parris@MIT-CAF.UUCP -- Dan Schein uucp: {ihnp4|allegra|burdvax|rutgers}!cbmvax!schein Commodore AMIGA ARPANET: cbmvax!schein@uunet.uu.net 1200 Wilson Drive Bix: dschein Plink: Dan*CATS West Chester PA 19380 phone: (215) 431-9100 ext. 9542 +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Call BERKS AMIGA BBS - 24 Hrs - 3/12/2400 Baud - 40Meg - 215/678-7691 +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ I help Commodore by supporting the AMIGA. Commodore supports me by allowing me to form my own suggestions and comments.