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Hard Drive Errors

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#47385From: Allen MittsJan 26, 1992 9:28 PM

My Quamtum 210 is exhibiting a problem. It continually produces read/write errors. I have even gone so far as to re-low level formatted it and when copying my files back over, the requester box (read/write error) still pops up. The drive is about 4 months old and this is the first problem I've had with it. I am assuming it has a bad block (or more), but don't know how to go about mapping it/them out so that the drive will be usable again. Any help with this problem will be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Allen

#47419From: Michael GerardJan 27, 1992 7:45 AM

Allan: What machine are you using the drive on and with what controller… and is it internal or external, is it the only HD in the system or one of _X_? And physically, where is it on the scsi bus? – Whapp!ng from the North Coast Michael

#47488From: Allen MittsJan 28, 1992 12:06 AM

Michael, I am using a CMB 2091 controller with the latest ROMs. My boot disk is a Quantum 80 meg HD that is causing no problems at all. I am not sure of the SCSI device numbers for the Quantum 80 and the (problem drive) Quantum 210 (which is causing me concern because I need to know that to do a low level format, correct?). Thanks for any help! Allen

#47489From: Allen MittsJan 28, 1992 12:08 AM

Oh.. I forgot to mention, I am using an Amiga 2000. How can I tell what the SCSI device number is for each of the drives? Allen

#47508From: Michael GerardJan 28, 1992 7:21 AM

Allan: The CBM controller software, (HDToolbox?) will scan the bus and tell you what drives and scsi device #'s are online. Are both of your hard drives internal? If all you did was install the 210 meg HD w/o changing the scsi address, you probably have a conflict. Look for three jumpers labeled A0, A1, A2 on the drives and be sure that the settings are not identical. Those jumpers indicate binary address settings where: A0=1, A1=2, A2=4. Quantums usually ship with the addres set to 6 (A2, A1 jumped). You can make one of the scsi addresses 5 by setting the jumpers to A2,A1. Hope this helps. – Whapp!ng from the North Coast Michael

#47537From: Vic WagnerJan 28, 1992 5:21 PM

Allen, I'll be working late tonight (probably), give me a call at my office, I seem to remeber you're local. (714) 253-2833….I'll see if I can help.