#FA0 not useable
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Chuck,
With this new board I am haveing trouble accessing drive A. I have had to go
through about 40 consecutive boot attempts in vaious combinations of hot or
cold to get a session where access to drive A is normal.
The symptoms are as follows:
1) clicking on the drive tab shows the clip croutons on it sometimes. Other
times it will hang the machine at either the sleep pointer or the arrow head
pointer.
2) when it does allow me to see the coutons on the drive, double clicking on
the crouton or trying to drag the crouton to a project or files bin similarly
locks the machine.
3) if I open the projects folder and try to load a project that uses clips off
drive A, the machine hangs as described above.
4) other symptoms are that if I don't try to access the drive from the user
interface during a session I am OK. I can digitize to that drive and use the
cutting room funtions on that clip as long as it is done at the time I record
it.
5) from a directory utility I can copy files to FA0: but when I copy a file
from it to another non-flyer drive, the file comes accross as empty (size =0).
Copying off FB0: or the audio only FC0: does not display the 0 size copy
defect.
The above has survived repeated Flyer Format applications. I have also
stripped user-startup just about to the point that the only statments left
uncommented out are the ones placed by the Flyer install.
Any idea what this one is all about?
I would also like to suggest that NewTek needs to supply an HD Tools type
program that understands the flyer HD file system. I tried to use QBTools to
see if the drive has some problems and it found that Flyer drives, have no RDB
and no recognizable file system. So, since none of the standard tool boxes
like HDTools, QBTools or AmiBack Tools will work, I think NewTek needs to
supply that as well (for undelete, analyze, salvage and recover, integrity test
etc.)
I would also appreciate it if you could get a paragraph or two out of the
technicos on what the following do and when they are recommended for use, as
well as when should they explicitly not be used:
Patch3000
Patch4000
laceset
Some combination of these is either in my user-startup or WBStartup drawer on
both my machines. I know some of it got there at like Toaster 1.1 (laceset,
for example) and the other stuff showed up later. I've never found any info on
what they do so I can't tell if any anomalies I have are due to either thier
activation or lack thereof.
wmc – via Autopilot!
Wayne,
Have you tried reformating the drive?
Regards,
Gary
Wayne:
With this being your second Flyer board, maybe it's time to try installing it
into a different A2000?
Although it's far removed from your problems, I had difficulty getting an
A4000 motherboard to work in a ToasterOven. Went nuts trying to figure it out
and burned a lot of time trying to work it out with the guy who manufactures
the ToasterOven.
When I purchased a second A4000 with the Rev 11 Buster and installed that in
the ToasterOven, it worked fine.
Turns out that the A4000 motherboard with the 09 Buster didn't work with the
big power supply used in the ToasterOven. Learning that cost me close to forty
hours of diddling and dinking.
I recognize that you truly know your stuff, but the level of difficulty
you've been experiencing makes me wonder if you shouldn't start exploring
off-the-wall reasons and installing your Flyer card into another A2000 is
probably a good way to start. If it works in a different installation, then you
know you've got some weird anomaly in your machine. On the other hand, if it
doesn't work, your alternative scenario that the Flyer is incompatible with the
A2000 sure picks up strength.
Jerry