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From: eric@pyrps5 (Eric Bergan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: strange hard disk behavior
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Date: 6 Jan 89 15:52:04 GMT
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In article <349@b11.INGR.COM.> jim@b11.UUCP (Jim Levie ) writes:
>In article <7546@watcgl.waterloo.edu> grwalter@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter) writes:
>>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've seen this happen on three different A2090's and three different brands of
>of SCSI drives.  I would suspect, therefore, that the problem is more likely to
>be in the disk driver than in the hardware, (I know it isn't in the disk drives)
>since it happens with 2090's and 2090A's.

	I also was having these kinds of problems, with a 2090 and a ST-251
(note: not SCSI). I actually took the machine in for service, and was told
that it was the hard drive.

	I didn't really want to believe this, but I did put in a different
ST-251, and the problem did go away. (I had previously done various things
such as reseating the cables, etc, so it is unlikely that the problem
was fixed just by unplugging and plugging in boards, cables, etc.)

	I still want to do some more tests to see if the first drive
still fails if both drives are connected.


					eric
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