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From: rona@hpdml93.HP.COM (Ron Abramson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard Disk flakiness
Message-ID: <480016@hpdml93.HP.COM>
Date: 3 Feb 89 17:39:24 GMT
References: <40fa8983.14e01@elwood.engin.umich.edu>
Organization: HP Disk Memory Division - Boise, ID
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Brain J Denheyer writes:
>My hard disk has been a1ting 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 !

[ETC...]

I had similar problems with my hard drive.  I fixed it by moving the 
host adaptor (small board which converts the Atari DMA port to SCSI)
away from the mech and power supply.  Apparently, the host adaptor was
picking up considerable noise.  If you use the ICD boot software, you'll
be warned of trouble as the write verify will be turned on.  I strongly
suggest that you obtain this until you're sure that the problem is
solved.  I was actually able to turn the problem on and off by moving
components around.  Now that my host adaptor is outside of the sheet
metal, I never have a write error.

I hope that this helps.

Ron Abramson