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#Hard drive lockup?

    02-Feb-94 19:51:42
Sb: #Hard drive lockup?
Fm: Jerry Thompson 75300,3710
To: all
I am having problems with my hard drive locking up when I boot. I installed a Maxtor 7345SR SCSI hard drive into my A3000. Now I am having problems with my primary 105 meg Quantum. The drive was working fine together with the Maxtor for a couple of days before the Quantum locked up. I am only able to get through the compete boot process about 1 in 20 tries. The drive LED just stops flickering and goes on full. Often I get a checksum error on the Quantum. This didn't happen before I installed the Maxtor. I had this problem with another Maxtor so I got the dealer to give me a replacement. Now it is happening again. It seems like the drive locks up during heavy disk usage. Is there some problem with the A3000 controller or maybe the scsi.device software? I have Kickstart version 37.310. Workbench version 38.12. Any suggestions? -Jerry