Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!iuvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!hamilton
From: hamilton@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Problem
Message-ID: <172200110@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 14 Apr 88 23:46:00 GMT
References: <897@mit-caf.UUCP>
Lines: 25
Nf-ID: #R:mit-caf.UUCP:897:uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:172200110:000:1214
Nf-From: uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!hamilton    Apr 14 17:46:00 1988


schein@cbmvax says:
> 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. ...
>  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)

    i have v33r54, and i see the same symptoms.  they occur at power-up;
subsequent warm-boots are ok.  my drive is also a ~40Mb miniscribe (a 3053).

	wayne hamilton
	U of Il and US Army Corps of Engineers CERL
UUCP:	{ihnp4,seismo,pur-ee,convex}!uiucuxc!hamilton
ARPA:	hamilton@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu	USMail:	Box 476, Urbana, IL 61801
CSNET:	hamilton%uxc@uiuc.csnet		Phone:	(217)333-8703
CIS:    [73047,544]			PLink:  w hamilton