[comp.sys.amiga] Hard drive validating

alj@bilver.UUCP (Arthur Johnson) (09/29/90)

 I just received and installed the newest version of Workbench 2.0 on my A3000,
and now a strange problem has cropped-up on my second hard drive.  Whenever
I format it (it's a Rodime, by the way), it stays in the "Validating" state for
at least an hour.  Info tells me that the disk is 99% full (even though I just
formatted it).  After some amount of time (an hour or so), Info tells me that
the drive's OK, and it's 0% full.  Strange, very strange.
 Anyone else have a similar problem?  It's irritating to wait so long for the
drive to become available, and I don't know what the problem is.  It's in one
big 43M partition.
 -Arthur

consp13@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Marcus Cannava) (10/03/90)

In article <1023@bilver.UUCP>, alj@bilver.UUCP (Arthur Johnson) writes:
|>
|> I just received and installed the newest version of Workbench 2.0 on
my A3000,
|>        ^^^^^^^^                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

	I, too, have an A3000 -- is there an update to the 'release' 2.0 that I
am unaware of? From whence did this update hail? Anyone? 
           

					\marc

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system@mr_plod.cbme.unsw.oz.au (System Files) (10/03/90)

consp13> 	I, too, have an A3000 -- is there an update to the 'release' 2.0 that I
consp13> am unaware of? From whence did this update hail? Anyone? 
 
The update is probably updating the beta release or the developers release
that made its way out with the first A3000 machines shipped, or maybe ???

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