#Hard disk help needed
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As I mentioned in a message over in AmigaArts, the game Wings seems to have
munged my hard disk. I am now having an heck of a time restoring it. The
disk is an 80 meg Quantum on a GVP Impact hardcard. It was installed with
DOS and partitioned when I bought it, so I don't have fond memories to fall
back on. When I attempt to reformat it using the GVP installation disk, I
get a message that no SCSI device 0 can be found. Now, I didn't set the
thing up, so I don't know whether the drive is device 0 or not. (Although
I don't see why the store would have changed that). How can I find the
device? How can I format this thing? I want to go back to it being an
autoboot drive with 2 40 meg partitions. As you can imaging, any help will
be VERY much appreciated.
-Brian
Now I am really confused. After repeatedly trying to get the drive to come
up I decided to say the heck with it, reformat the thing and be done. That
led to the problems described in my previous message. Since I have 2 hard
drives on that system and my 3D stuff happened to be on the second drive, I
booted with a floppy, accessed the second drive, and went happily to work
for a few hours. I then turned the computer off for an hour or so and
rebooted – again from the floppy. Lo and behold, both partitions of the
problem disk appeared. I removed the floppy, warm booted and the problem
drive came back as normal. What the heck is going on??? When the drive
wouldn't come up the activity light went on and off very rhythmically for a
couple of minutes before the system gave up and went to the floppy. If you
listened closely you could hear the head going back and forth over the
drive — not usually an health sign. And yet now it has 'recovered' for no
apparent reason! Has anyone seen this type of thing? Any ideas on what is
happening with this drive?
-Brian