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From: schein@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dan Schein - Guest)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Hard Drive from he!!
Message-ID: <9791@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 23 Feb 90 04:29:01 GMT
Reply-To: schein@cbmvax.UUCP (Dan Schein - Guest)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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  I have developed an interesting problem with one of my hard drives and can
  not seem to find the solution.

  I have a 2nd ST-506 hd connected (its a Miniscribe 20 meg). It has already
  been formated with a FFS partition (6-611) and the CBM required (old)FS
  (2-5) plus the reserved 2 tracks (0-2). Im using a CBM 2090A controller.

  Recently I have had several read/write error messages. I decided to backup
  the drive and reformat it. Well ive tried PREP'ing the drive, changing the
  mountlist size for the FFS part. Just about everything. But no matter how
  many times I format the drive - the old files are -still- there! 

  The PREP commands says the drive is preped, I then reboot and do a format
  (not QUICK) and it actualy goes through each cylinder. However when its 
  done the drive is as before.

  Any ideas? Please post or mail to the account below as the HD thats wacky
  is my UseNet/UUCP drive :-(

  Sneakers

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