brians@hpcljms.HP.COM (Brian Sullivan) (07/04/90)
I currently cannot write to my hard drive. The drive does not validate.
Apparently my Amiga 2000HD guru-ed while a disk I/O operation was only
partially complete. When it rebooted the following sequence of messages
appeared:
System A2000HD with stock Commodore A2090A autoboot SCSI card.
Drive SCSI Quantum 40 MB from Commodore.
Power-On
Startup-Sequence executing
Hard Drive light on continuously
(Drive being vailidated)
Hard Drive light goes off
Requestor appears:
"Volume Workbench"
"has a read/write error"
"[RETRY] [CANCEL]"
Selecting [RETRY] has no effect,
Select [CANCEL]
New Requestor appears:
"Error validating disk"
"Key 30936 bad header type"
"[RETRY] [CANCEL]"
Selecting [RETRY] has no effect,
Select [CANCEL]
Same Requestor appears:
"Error validating disk"
"Key 30936 bad header type"
"[RETRY] [CANCEL]"
Selecting [RETRY] has no effect,
Select [CANCEL]
System now operates correctly, but since the hard drive "Workbench:" is
not validated, no writes are allowed to the hard drive.
Can someone tell me how I can correct this without a complete reformat of
the hard drive. I can accept the fact that one or two file contain corrupted
data and thus will be lost. I don't understand why it is neccessary to
reformat the entire drive and restore it from floppies. After all only two
blocks contain bad header information, the rest of the data on the disk is fine,
and all my applications run correctly. I just want to patch the two bad headers.
Is there a PD program that can do this safely and painlessly?
Has this seemingly common problem happened to any one else out there in
Amiga hard drive land? And how do you feel about reformating and hand-loading
40 to 50 floppies to correct this simple problem. Surely Commodore can provide
a hard-drive utility like 'fsck' from UNIX-land.
-- Brian --
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