john@nereid.jpl.nasa.gov (John Veregge) (02/20/91)
I have a 2000HD (2090a with 40 meg drive and 2 megs fast memory) with 1 meg chip memory. Recently the drive has been making much more noise when accessing 2 places in the directory tree. (That's tree as in file pathnames not physical locations on the drive.) The noise sounds like a fast and furious seek, except the drive light does not come on till the end of the noise. It only does this when reading/writing those two places. I ran the CBM supplied HD toolkit and performed a diagnotic check of the hard disk. It reported that there have been no changes to the disk since the last format. (March 1990) Any ideas? Do I need to worry about the drive? Is it possible to repair before it stops working? (Or before it nukes my data?) Or is the file system merely fragmented? In the latter case, are there any disk optimizers for the Amiga that work on hard drives? (I have FastDiskII, but it only works on floppies.) Any and all help appreciated. P.S. I do perform regular backups (Full backup when the daily incremental backup no longer fits on a single floppy or in UNIX parlance a level 0 dump when the daily level 9 dump no longer fits on a single floppy.) so for those so inclined, please spare the rest of us that tangential thread. john :-} -- John R Veregge Section 348 - Flight Command and Data Jet Propulsion Laboratory Management (Technology Development) Calif Institute of Technology Mail stop: T1704, Office: T1704-P 4800 Oak Grove Drive Phone: (818) 354-0511, FAX: 393-4494 Pasadena, CA, USA 91109 john@triton.jpl.nasa.gov