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From: dleigh@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Darren Leigh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: flakier amigas
Message-ID: <3011@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM>
Date: 4 Mar 89 23:48:23 GMT
Reply-To: dleigh@hplabsz.UUCP (Darren Leigh)
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard "What if" Crisis Center
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True to form, as soon as I found a workaround for my last flakey
problem, another one appeared.  This continues my "never a working
machine" syndrome.  I guess I break computers just by being around
them.

I pulled the 2 Meg board out of my machine and it no longer randomly
gurus.  Suggested diagnoses were either a bad RAM chip or a bad power
supply causing weird memory errors.  I tried a memtest program with no
result, so this and other symptoms lead me to belive that it is a bad
power supply.

Now I have a hard disk error.  I have a 2090A and a Quantum 80 Meg
SCSI drive with a one cylinder OFS partition and the rest as a FFS
partition.  At boot-time, when the FFS partition (named "hr") gets
mounted, I get a requestor saying "Volume hr has a read/write error".
When I press cancel, I get another requestor: "Error validating disk
Key 65536 bad header type".  After pressing cancel on this, things
seem to work normally except I can't write anything onto this partion.

I tried "diskdoctor hr:" only to get a "Not enough memory" error
message (with and without the 2 Meg board installed).  I get the same
message when I do a diskdoctor on "boot:" (my tiny OFS partition) so
apparently diskdoctor wants a look at the whole disk.  Is there some
program out there that will fix my disk, or am I going to have to
reformat it?  Also, is there a disk park utility that I can use?  If
not, how would I go about writing one?

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Darren Leigh
Internet:  dleigh@hplabs.hp.com
UUCP:      hplabs!dleigh
Ghostscript status:  working on the 1.2 sources, expect an alpha
version ASAMMF (As Soon As My Machine's Fixed)