joseph@garfield.MUN.EDU (Joseph Dawson) (10/24/88)
Hi,
I have had some problems with my 2090 and my MiniScribe [3650],
I finally had the drive replaced with a new MiniScribe [3650] and
it looks to be working now. (It has not had an error for 48
hours! That breaks the 24 hour best that my old MiniScribe had.)
As soon as I plugged in the new drive, I had an orange light come
on it. I then perped it and said no to the parking the head
option. Then I went through with a normal prep, and now every 6
seconds when the drive is not used I get this orange light again.
I personally think that my heads are parked while the light is
orange, as if i try to read/write to the hard drive while the
light is orange it will make some loud sounds before doing my
task.
Can someone please tell me how I can stop my heads from being
parked. I am quite sure I did not pick parking the heads in the
prep so I need a different way.
P.S. I am not sure about how my mountlist should look. My local
store knows nothing about hard drives on Amigas. Do I need to
have a mount for "DH0:". I only have one for "RES0:" now.
This is a copy of my mountlist:
/* ST-506 hard disk drives are units 1 and 2 */
res0: Device = hddisk.device
Unit = 1
Flags = 0
Surfaces = 6
BlocksPerTrack = 17
Reserved = 2
Interleave = 0
LowCyl = 0 ; HighCyl = 1
Buffers = 1
BufMemType = 0
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jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) (10/25/88)
In article <4951@garfield.MUN.EDU> joseph@garfield.MUN.EDU (Joseph Dawson) writes: > >I have had some problems with my 2090 and my MiniScribe [3650], ... >As soon as I plugged in the new drive, I had an orange light come >on it. I hope you didn't plug it in with the power on... :-) > I then perped it and said no to the parking the head >option. Then I went through with a normal prep, and now every 6 >seconds when the drive is not used I get this orange light again. >I personally think that my heads are parked while the light is >orange, as if i try to read/write to the hard drive while the >light is orange it will make some loud sounds before doing my >task. If you say yes to "park" it will park the heads after 3 seconds, not 6. Either the drive is doing it itself (possible, I suppose), or perhaps it's every 3 seconds, and you answered 'Y' to park?? Try re-prepping if all else fails. Note that some filesystem operations do some writing a few seconds later, like delete. This does not happen on reads. >P.S. I am not sure about how my mountlist should look. My local >store knows nothing about hard drives on Amigas. Do I need to >have a mount for "DH0:". I only have one for "RES0:" now. No entry for dh0: is needed. dh0: will be automatically created according to the information you gave prep when you prepped the drive. RES0: is ONLY used for prepping the drive. Do not try to use it at any other time. -- You've heard of CATS? Well, I'm a member of DOGS: Developers Of Great Software. Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup