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From: bdenh@caen.engin.umich.edu (Brain J Denheyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Hard Disk flakiness
Keywords: Hard Disk Flaky SH204
Message-ID: <40fa8983.14e01@elwood.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 20 Jan 89 15:07:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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My hard disk has been acting very strange and I want to know waht's
going on since it is indispensable hardware.
At first it looked like I lost directory information on C: (I have
C,D,E,F 5 Meg partitions) because I was getting garbage for some
directories and things like 143 folders with random names. Ouch !
After I zapped the disk and restored everything, it a appeared I'd
be okay.  Lately though I've been getting an alert box
telling me that drive C or drive D may be damaged and then of course
that drive has zero bytes in zero things etc..  Turning the !HD! off and
back on seems to cure the problem (not resetting the ST).

In addition sometimes the harddisk does not initialize properly and I have
to turn it on and then off again.  Apparently the in use light does not come
on when it's screwing up.

Since my hard disk is my life I'd like to know if anybody's seen anything
similar.  I've had the HD for about 1 1/2 years.

Thanks bunches

Brian Denheyer

P.S. I like my ATARI ST.