| From: | Jonathan Hart |
| Date: | 7 Sep 2000 at 00:46:31 |
| Subject: | Re: (more) hard drive keeps resetting Amiga at startup!??!?! |
Hi there Richard
On 06-Sep-00, you wrote:
> Some updates to the situation: I have removed the Seagate from the Amiga
> and put it into a PC and "fdisk"ed it (versioin that was on the PC only
> allowed me to partition it to 8GB and I've been told I need a newer
> version of fdisk), formatted it and then put it back into the Amiga - to
> no avail! It still does the same.
This has happened to me twice in two years. First time I thought I'd really
messed up and sent the drive back to White Knight who did the PC format as
you did, and they reported that the drive was fine doing fast video
spooling on their machine. But when I got it back, it was still the same.
[snip]
> heads do their clicking business again, the system freezes up. If I push
> reset, I get a guru 8000-000A. I tried it the other way (leave SCSI cable
> connected and apply power after WB is loaded but I can't remember what
I would think that adding power to the drive after the system has booted is
even worse... ;)
> All I can say is that I am glad I didn't have your problem of it being my
> only hard drive! :) Not that I'm any better off at the moment!
Well, I hope you sort it out. If you are having trouble mounting the drive
after the business you describe, try either the Mounter tool from OS3.5 or
UnitControl (Phase5). I used this to mount the drive, and then quickly went
into SCSIConfig and re-did the RDB (lowCyl, HighCyl) data, which I keep a
backup of in DEVS:
Re-saved the drive, and it was working again. I'm sure your problem is to do
with the RDB, you've overwritten it in some way.
All the best,
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