jharres@sleepy.bmd.trw.com (03/27/91)
Well I finally got bit last night. The wonderful STE DMA (read harddrive) bug got me. After doing a couple hours of work on the computer with probably 25 or so disk accesses it gave me the "somethings wrong with the disk drive" alert. I then could no longer see the partitions even though the hard disk driver would run. I have an ICD plus host adapter and a syquest drive. Does this error (the STE DMA problem) always hammer the disk in the same manner? If so, what is necessary to go and recover the drive. No I didn't have a backup as I've had it only 2 weeks and wasn't sure if I liked my layout yet. (Lesson learned though :-( ). I'll be contacting Atari about a warranty problem in the mean time. Thanks for any help. Jim Harres jharres@doc.bmd.trw.com
Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz (03/28/91)
Distribution:world In article <1311.27f053cf@sleepy.bmd.trw.com> jharres@sleepy.bmd.trw.com writes: > Well I finally got bit last night. The wonderful STE DMA (read harddrive) > bug got me. After doing a couple hours of work on the computer with probably > 25 or so disk accesses it gave me the "somethings wrong with the disk drive" > alert. I then could no longer see the partitions even though the hard disk > driver would run. I have an ICD plus host adapter and a syquest drive. > Does this error (the STE DMA problem) always hammer the disk in the same > manner? If so, what is necessary to go and recover the drive. No I didn't > have a backup as I've had it only 2 weeks and wasn't sure if I liked my > layout yet. (Lesson learned though :-( ). > I'll be contacting Atari about a warranty problem in the mean time. > > Thanks for any help. > > Jim Harres jharres@doc.bmd.trw.com Well this has happened to me, was helping a friend that has just got a STE, and was using my Drive connected to a Mega File 30, had problems with this, the Mega File 30 would not connect to me Drive with a Supra Host adapter It had to be Atati to Mega File 30, then my Drive, this I can't understand.. Well after the 3rd STE, all different faults, The Directories of the Mega File and mine where damaged, This was caused by the last but one STE , we now have a STE that works..!! With a use of a program, was able to Fix the Mega File 30. But the big problem is that the data in the Directory of my 'C', Partition are moved 2 bytes to the left, a total of say 6 sectors. Is there a Util that can move the Data back , all the sector editors that I have tried just over type, there is no insert mode !! I don't realy want to retype over 3000 bytes.. Can some one Help !! -- Roger W. Sheppard 85 Donovan Rd, Kapiti New Zealand...