wille@frith.msu.edu (Jeffrey Wille) (06/07/90)
I have an A500 w/ a CLtd host adapter, an Adaptec RLL controller and a Seagate drive. Recently it quit working, and when I tried to do a low level format, it gave me a "Unit Select Failure" error. :-( Is this likely to be caused by a faulty host adapter or controller? As a result of this hardware failure, I am either looking for a solution to my problem or another drive. Is there anyone out there who is trying to sell a used drive for an A500? I am sending this from someone else's account. You can send mail either to him or to my account (below). Any info would be appreciated. Robert Wille (rbw@spock.byu.edu) You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing viability of Fortran. -- Alan Perlis
bmacintyre@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre) (07/11/90)
No, this isn't another "my hard drive died, what should I do?!?!" posting.
It's more like "my hard drive died, I know basically what to do, but the
software I can find to do it isn't being very helpful."
The last time my harddrive died I used Sectorama to fix it (just disconnected
the directory that had the problem within it). What I'm wondering is
is there a newer version of Sectorama than the one on Fish
disk 108? Or anything better.
The last time around it was easy to fix - my machine GURU'd while doing
a copy to the drive, so the error was within a directory I didn't really
care about.
This time, it GURU'd while downloading MRBackup (thus the Irony[TM] ... I
was about to back it up again) _and_ with dcron running _and_ with Getty
running _and_ it was being UUCP'd down (I had just gotten the UUCP going
and was testing file copy) so the error is in any of a number of places.
So, I want something that will be more helpfull.
What would be useful would be something that follows the file structure
(as the startup validation does) and gives _detailed_ info about what
is wrong. Then, I could go in and change something, do it again,
change something, do it again, etc.
Thanks,
Blair
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