grh@cbnewsl.att.com (george.r.heuer) (03/15/91)
Help!
Well it looks as if my harddisk/controller in my A2000 has bit the
big one, and I'm wondering what to do next. Here's the story. I have
an old Seagate ST138N installed on a GVP Series II controller which was
working fairly well. Then the other day I got several Read/Write Errors
on dh0: and tried several tricks to repair the damage. Unfortunately,
things seemed to get worse instead of better, and soon all 3 partitions
were reporting errors or being reported as "Not a DOS disk". At that
point I decided to low-level format the whole disk and try rebuilding
it as a single partition. This seems to proceed OK according to the GVP
software, but results in more Read/Write errors when I try and boot
or read from it. So it looks like something has died.
I'm prepared to replace the Seagate assuming it's bad, but would
really like to know for sure if that's the source of the problem.
Does anyone have any suggestions about how I could tell which is the
source of the problem? I don't know anyone with a spare SCSI disk
lying around (which would be the best way), so are there any other
approaches that could be used to definitively locate the problem?
Thanks.
Randy Heuer
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