CompuServe Messages

Erik, I don't know if the cart was still spinning or not. I note the manual says wait 30 seconds. I doubt I waited that long every time… but I also doubt it takes that long for the thing to spin down. All my references to formatting have been low level. AmigaDOS formatting seems to be pretty consistent. (Yes, I know about QUICK and you're right, you do have to do it "unquick" at least once after low level formatting.) I don't have a Find Bad Blocks option in my HDToolBox, at least not that I can find. I do have Verify Data on Drive. This is the one that was aborting halfway through before I reformatted the cart last time. Once I low-leveled it, the verify worked fine, as it has every time I formatted the drive. Interesting… I just pulled up HDToolBox to make sure there is no Find Bad Blocks, and for grins I ran Verify. Guess what: the verify is aborting in the middle again without explanation. Guess what else: I copied some new files to the cart last night (after running read-only for days without incident). Hmm… Looks like it's time to do some structured testing. _IF_ I've just stumbled across a way to detect when damage occurs, then I can cycle through some different configurations and perhaps find what's causing this. I'll keep you posted. Rick