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#Hard Drive Woes…

    21-Jul-92 01:27:04
Sb: #Hard Drive Woes…
Fm: Sam Reynolds 70750,245
To: ALL
HELP! I have an A2000 w/ 9 MEG of RAM, a toaster,& Quantum 40MB HD. I have put the WB2.04 files on the HD partition (SYS:) and boot off a floppy under 1.3 to load the 2.04 kickstart with Z-Kick, the machine re-boots from the HD under 2.04. I have just added to external SCSI drives to my 2091 controller. The first is an Seagate ST-296N, the second is a Quantum Q-250. Here's the problem… When I try to copy large files (10+MEG) to the external drives, the machine crashes… I originally formatted the drives with HDToolBox under 2.04. If I just boot 1.3, the drives will crash less frequently (but they still make the machine crash). I re-formated them under 1.3, a little more of the problem went away,but it is still there… I tried playing with MAXTRANSFER in HDToolBox but it doesnt seem to help… If anyone has ANY suggestions, please plass them along… Thanks in advance… Sam Reynolds PS Leave a reply here, or email me at 70750,245