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From: glamdrng@pnet51.cts.com (Rocky Lhotka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DH0: and steady drive light
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Date: 1 Jun 89 21:25:08 GMT
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I was having that problem - C-Ltd controller, ST251n drive.  It turned out
that the drive was validating and C-Ltd mentions in their docs that this may
happen.  Y
You are supposed to wait patiently for many minutes (hours?) for it to fix
itself. (according to the docs I have)  

The problem seems to be caused when the computer is shut off/rebooted when
there is still outstanding I/O (writes) to DH0:...  I ended up waiting until
'hell froze over' and finally gave up.  I booted from another floppy which did
not go to the hard drive, manually mounted the hard drive and reformatted
it...  Luckily I had fairly good backups...

I don't know if this is the problem, but if it is (or might be) let me know
and I will send you the C-Ltd document section dealing with this problem
(since they gave it to me on disk)
Rocky Lhotka
Glamdring, Sword of Mithrandir

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