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From: eric@pyrps5 (Eric Bergan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: ST-251 failure
Message-ID: <21811@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: 3 May 88 16:17:04 GMT
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	I'm having an intermittent problem with my ST-251 drive on a
A2090 controller. Occasionally, during bursts of heavy activity, the
drive goes silent, with the access light staying lit. The system is
largely brain-dead at this point - you can move things around on
the WorkBench screen, but no screen refresh happens. The only way out
is to reboot.

	Has anyone seen similar problems?  Is it a hardware failure of
either the drive or the controller? Is it just a timing problem?  I
don't seem to lose any data, or have to reformat the drive, but it is
probably only a matter of time...