Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!grwalter
From: grwalter@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: strange hard disk behavior
Message-ID: <7546@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 4 Jan 89 15:07:48 GMT
References: <IXjeaqy00UkaMkKllB@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: grwalter@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <IXjeaqy00UkaMkKllB@andrew.cmu.edu> bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) writes:
>Hi, lately, either my hard disk (q80s) or my controller (2090a) has
>been acting very strangely: If I reboot, the reboot succeeds to the
>point where the hard disk normally takes over (just after
>binddrivers).  But at that point, the drive light will turn on and
>stay on, with seemingly no disk activity (that I can hear), and the
>system hangs at that point [I've waited up to 15 mins. for something
>to happen].

Geez, the same sort of thing happens to me every so often (2090A,
Miniscribe 8051S). I reboot and the machine freezes every so often (usually
in BindDrivers). If I try to move the mouse, well she don't move at all. If
I reboot again everything is fine.

I too am worried about this behaviour ... (my 2090A is under warrentee for
another 10 days... if this is a hardware problem I hope someone can tell me
about soon).

	fred