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From: king@oetl.UUCP (Steve King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ST157N problems
Summary: Also w/ ST251
Keywords: Hard Disk
Message-ID: <407@oetl1.oetl.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 89 19:09:24 GMT
References: <8901022054.AA08155@jade.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: king@oetl.UUCP (Steve King)
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Co., Santa Cruz, CA.
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In article <8901022054.AA08155@jade.berkeley.edu> PHILIP@VTVM1.BITNET (Fred Senese) writes:
>After a few months of fairly trouble-free operation I am having
>trouble with my hard drive.
>   2) The drive will run for several hours or days but eventually gives
>lots of read-write errors (and executables on the drive aren't recognized
>as object modules.)  A file that is corrupt one day is OK the next.  

I too have been having trouble with my hard drive and WB1.3. Twice now the
disk has crashed.  My system:

		   Amiga 1000
		   Pal Jr. with ST506 DMA cntlr. 1.0 M RAM
		   Seagate ST251-1 40M drive /DH0: FFS, 20K Stack, LCyl 0,
		   HCyl 818
		   WB1.3

Pal Jr. came with a low level disk test program (plus sketchy doc). At least
I can block out the crashes.  System worked fast & well under 1.2.  I first
backed up hd with MRbackup, then configured for 1.3.  After restoring files
DPaint crashed when trying to load hi-res files from hd.  With the help of my 
boss got bad blocks mapped and then went through whole process again.  This
time Deluxe Music Cons. Set crashed heavily.  And here is the wierd part, I
got a requester for soundscape when I tried to open DMCS from the Icon.  I also
got a partial window for soundscape.  Now I have never had trouble with DMCS
before and Soundscape has *never* been mounted on the 40M hd(although it was
on the previous 20M ST225 I have).  It is as though the FFS is finding things
long ago deleted and not buggy in 1.2.  It makes me think I may load all 
application programs from masters and only save data files, then backup for the
future. Thoughts anyone?

Problem 2>  NEWSHELL NEWCON:100/100/200/100/SJKSHELL fails in startup. I made
L:Shell-Seg resident and mounted NEWCON: But the /200 option fails. If I make
width /100 it comes up fine???!!

  P.S. I am not the Stephen J. King previously seen on these stations.  But
  if his middle name is Juel then how am I two places at once?

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