| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
I am in need of help. I accidently blew my hard drive with a click
of the mouse. I have a Miniscribe 80Meg. with a 2090A controller.
The disk was partitioned DHO and DH1. DHO was designated Boot Drive.
Both are gone and I believe I have to start from scratch. I had
backed up the drive with Quarterback, however, now I can't get the
drive to recognize DH1. I believe it is in the Mountlist but being
a real amature at this I'm lost. If there is anyone in the Nashua,
Merrimack or Amherst, N.H. area that is an expert at this I would
be greatful for the assistance in getting back on line. Anyone else
that has any input would also be appreciated. By the way it is
hooked to a 2000 with 2 disk drives. Thanks for any help.
Bob
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| 2255.1 | Try Reformatting | DPD20::MARASKY | Mon Feb 20 1989 23:28 | 13 | |
I'm not going to claim to ba an expert on the 2090A cointroller
but the easiest way to get the drive back the way you want it is
to reformat the beast. You could do a straight reformat without
mapping the drive and that should be your quickest solution or you
might try mapping the drive. The latter of the two will perform
a read check of the drive and map out any bad blocks that it may
stumble across. Also since you blew it up you might want to partion
the drive to more than DH0 & DH1, supposedly it will allow you faster
access time between partitions. You should have gotten the software
for formatting the drive when you got the machine. Not sure if
this will help I'm only a A1000 owner with a little 20meg drive.
Don.....
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| 2255.2 | Maybe it'll fix itself | TLE::RMEYERS | Randy Meyers | Tue Feb 21 1989 13:22 | 26 |
Re: .0 Are you using the 1.3 Fast File System on the DH1: partition? (You would have to be running 1.3 and you would have had to edit you mountlist to specify the fast file system.) If you are not running the Fast File System, your disk may be ok. The Amiga file systems (both the old slow file system and the new fast file system) perform an amount of drive repair automatically. If the system crashes while in the middle of a disk write, the file system on the disk is damaged. When this happens, the next time you access that partition, the system realizes that the disk is corrupt, and runs the disk validator to correct the problem. The "problem" is that if you are using the old slow file system on a big partition, it can take anywhere from 10 minutes to 2 hours for the system to validate and correct the disk. (The new fast file system validates and corrects a disk over 10 times faster.) So, if the problem you are seeing is that the system seems to "freeze" in the startup sequence when it mounts the partition, and the hard disk access light starts flickering on and off, try leaving the machine alone for a couple of hours (probably won't take that long). Even if you are using the fast file system, try leaving the machine alone for a while. | |||||
| 2255.3 | PART WAY THERE | FARMER::ROY | Wed Feb 22 1989 14:50 | 6 | |
Well I have reached a point where I have DHO back but DH1 still
comes up Not a DOS disk. It formats, but when I reboot the system
I get the not a DOS disk message part way through.I asked WHY and
got "Last command failed because not a valid DOS disk", I ask why
again and get "the last command did not set a return code". Can
anyone tell me what a return code is and is it in the Startup sequence.
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| 2255.4 | It happens to me, once ! | CESARE::ZABOT | Marco Zabot-Adv.Tech.mgr-Turin ACT | Fri Feb 24 1989 09:00 | 9 |
... it was an error on the mountlist. The last cylinder of 1st
partition and 1st cylinder of 2nd partition were the same :-).
Or : remember that to format ffs you MUST put FFS on the command:
format drive dh1: name what-ever FFS
( if format do not complain the harddisk is 99% ok and the error
is viciously hidden some place, laughing at you ! The smaller
the error the harder is to spot it!)
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