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From: rkwood@rosebud.UUCP (Randy Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Hard Disk Problems...
Message-ID: <1412.AA1412@rosebud>
Date: 29 Mar 89 22:58:26 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
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HELP!!!
 
     I'm having some serious problems with my hard disk.  The hardware
consists of a C L'td SCSI controller (v. 2.x), an Adaptec 4000 SCSI->ST506
converter, and a Seagate ST-225 20 megabyte ST506 MFM hard drive.  The
software I'm currently running is WB 1.3 (FFS) and C L'td's SCSI_DOS v.
2.06.
 
     The problem is that the machine has great difficulty mounting DH0: the
first time I turn the machine on.  I have to Cntrl-A-A (warm boot) the
machine about a dozen times before it will recognize DH0: as a dos disk. 
Otherwise it will pop up a little system requestor saying "Not a DOS Disk
in DH0:.... Use DiskDoctor...".  Once the machine recognizes DH0: I have no
further problems and subsequent warm-boots are trouble free.
 
     This problem first appeared the day after I ran B.A.D., a hard disk
optimizing program.  At first, I only had to try warm booting the machine
several times before my 1000 would recognize DH0: on the initial power-up. 
However the situation has become progressively worse...   I've tried
reformatting DH0: with both the C L'td low-level utilities and the AmigaDOS
format command.  Everything looked OK until I powered down and then powered
back up....

     I would hate to think I might have to junk my hard drive, which had
worked perfectly for almost 2 years, in favor of a new Supra or C L'td
drive.   :^(    Do the comp.sys.amiga net-gods have any ideas or
suggestions???

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