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From: mph@rover.UUCP (Mark Huth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: HELP! Corrupted Disks
Keywords: This seems to be a common problem, no ?
Message-ID: <781@rover.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 88 19:00:57 GMT
References: <1544@edison.GE.COM>
Reply-To: mph@rover.UUCP (Mark Huth)
Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division, Tempe, Az.
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In article <1544@edison.GE.COM> mfs@edison.GE.COM (mfs @ Somewhere in the Mountains) writes:
>They all seem to eventually go bad.  The funny thing is, when I run
>diskdoctor on them, they all (with rare exceptions) have hard errors
>on track 40.  Also, after diskdoctor finishes, I get a requester
>that says: Insert volume Lazarus.  I have never had a disk named this!

I suspect that the problem is the drive head.  I had a drive that was
very hard on disks when I got my 1000 a couple of years back.  Reeally
nasty, in that DF0: seemed to eat disks - like workbench and
kickstart.  I speculate that the head was not properly lapped and
polished, and that it therefore got dirty quickly and wore out the
disk at track 40 (root block and other good stuff).  That was the
drive that went for the 2000 upgrade trade!  I have had no problems with
the external drive, the other 1000, or the 2000 that I regularly
abuse.  

Lazarus is the name given to the disk when diskdoctor resurects it
from the dead!

Mark Huth