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From: rjung@sal42.usc.edu (Robert  allen Jung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Hard Drive Woes (was Re: Hard Disks versus 10 Mb Floppies)
Summary: I already stuck this on comp.sys.atari.8bit, but nobody knows
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Date: 1 Nov 88 16:02:54 GMT
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(Okay, okay, this doesn't pertain to the ST, but I'm desperate for an answer!)
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  Since the subject of hard drives came up...

  Two months ago, a buddy and me got together a 20 megabyte Seagate hard drive
and an ICD hard drive kit for use with a 130 XE. We get everything assembled,
formatted, and partitioned, and it all works wonderfully.

  HOWEVER, after a certain number (we don't know how many) of drive I/O
operations, the hard drive starts to buzz loudly, and keeps returning
"device done" (directory scrambled?) errors. We can still access the data,
but only IF we (a) reposition the drive ever SO SLIGHTLY, or (b) continually
try to read/write the drive (It gets through...eventually). Obviously, this is
a MAJOR pain in the butt.

  Does anyone know what's wrong, or have a clue? Since a lot of net.st.people
have hard drives (Us? We're 100% naieve), and/or used to work on the Atari
8-bits, can anyone help?

  Please post or reply. PLEASE!

						--R.J.
						B-(

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