2090 Problems?
Anyone know anything about harddrives? I have an ST506 (Microbolis 40Meg)
which is fairly old (1986). My controller is a 2090, both are connected to
an A500 via an expansion bus (allows 2000 cards) by a defunct company
called "Pacific Periphials". The problem Im having is that I keep losing
sectors and getting read/write errors. This only seems to happen after
about 2-3 hours use (consecutive). The scenerio is that I boot up fine,
start working and after a while I start getting read/write errors and
errors validating keys. I usually have to format that partition and start
from scratch (I've become a pro at backups!!). I've tried everything from
re-"preping" the drive to even going to an IBM-PC (A real one ) and doing a
low-level format. Nothing seems to work.
I have to presumtions, one: The drive could be shot. However, I can format
this thing and it seems to work fine RIGHT AWAY. There are no signs of
crashes or anything of that sort. two: Maybe the controller is getting too
warm!?!?!?!? This is what I think might be causing the problem. There is
not that much ventilation in the expansion bus and it is getting warm, not
hot but warm.
My qustion is, has anybody run into this or had this similiar experience?
If so, help!
Thanks, Gary MacDougall (70744,63)