karl@sugar.UUCP (Karl Lehenbauer) (04/13/88)
(Hopefully I'll have solved this problem before this message gets far enough (and replies back) to help, but just in case...) My hard disk died. It's a Seagate ST-251 with an A2090 board in an Amiga 2000. The system guru'ed while running the assembler after printing a couple of "I got lost" message - it was probably this funky code I was trying to compile. Anyway, I reboot and and the disk validator runs as expected but fails to validate the disk. Consult, consult, copy off everything, try diskdoctor. Diskdoctor runs, finds some "keys" that it can't reach, tells me about a lot of files that aren't good anymore and exits. The disk validator runs and refuses to validate the disk. I run diskdoctor again. It finds a new problem, wastes a bunch of files and exits. Disk validator runs again - the hard drive won't validate. OK, I know when I'm licked, so I decided to re-prep and reformat the drive. It'll also allow me to get rid of the @W#%$^&* three second head park that seemed like such a good idea last December. Prep worked but the format hung. I tried various things, like power cycle rebooting and reprepping. Now it won't even prep anymore. It says "Device not PREPped" - a most unedifying message. Am I doing something wrong? Is this a hardware problem? -- "Tonight. Tonight. To ni i ight. Oh, woah." -Phil Collins ..!{bellcore!tness1,uunet!nuchat}!sugar!karl, Unix BBS (713) 438-5018