#Hard Drive Fun(?)
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I recently had "read error" and "checksum error" messages on my GVP Series
II Accelerator Board for my Amiga 2000. I used Ami-Back Tools, and "repaired"
bad blocks. Everything seems to be fine now (fingers crossed).
I am not a "techie", so I stumble through a lot of the tech jumbo. I just
downloaded "XPrep2.LZH", for I feel that very soon I will have to reprep my
drive. Wish there were some documentation on exactly how to configure this
hard drive. I have another SCSI drive, 250 mb, where I am keeping most of my
programs. All that I have installed on DH0 (my 68030) is my Toaster and the
2.1 OS.
I am just wondering why I started getting error messages. The drive has
always worked fine. I just hooked up to the Internet, and am I being naive, or
could there have been power surges going into my serial port? My modem seems
to be working fine. I guess I'm searching for any other reason other than my
drive screwing up, ha ha…but I notice the drive light coming on during
Internet ses- sions (not of course when uploading or downloading).
Is there any good documentation on your hard drives? Your manual leaves
non- techies like me cold. If it was explained in plain english I could
probably un- derstand…
Anyway, thanks for listening,
Tom 74461,1671
Tom,
Your errors could have started from several sources:
1. Since you just started going online, your system may have a virus.
2. One of your CIA (8520) chips may be faulty and the increased activity
introduced by the modem may be triggering this problem.
3. Depending on the age of the drive, it may be starting to fail.
4. If an error ocurred during an download, your drive may have been
invalidated. This would explain the drive access (the operating system is
trying to revalidate the drive). It could also be that the Internet software
package is updating files during the session.
If the system is working properly at this time, my recommendation is to leave
it alone. If it fails again, then reformat the drive and start from scratch,
to eliminate any virus or software problem. One word of caution concering
ExpertPrep. It prepares drives slightly different than the older FastPrep
program and cannot be used interchangeably. If you start using ExpertPrep,
don't use FastPrep again.
GVP TECH