Hard Drive Woes...

[DiskChris]

The other day my A2000 with Oktagon 2008 and 300 mb scsi drive started giving me gurus awhile after accessing the hard drive, so I went to format it, and put a fresh copy of workbench on. Format went fine, however upon copying workbench, more gurus.  So I threw the drive in a linux box with scsi and ran badblocks (which wrote random data to every sector and attempted to read it back).  It too came back with an i/o error.  However, after that I used dd to zero out the drive. Worked without a hitch. Ran badblocks again, and it worked fine. Waited awhile, and ran it again and again no issue. Thinking I had fixed it, I put it back in the amiga and formatted, coppied workbench, and everything's great...until just now trying to copy a program over amiga explorer, I got a checksum error...If the drive is bad, why would the badblocks tests seem to indicate otherwise?? Could it be a problem with the controller??

[DiskChris]

Yeah I was afraid it was the drive...I knew it in the back of my mind but didn't want to admit it. I ran the drive connected to the Amiga power supply while in the pc, so I think the power supply is ok (it tested ok in the pc). I downloaded a couple of demos to diskette and those ran ok so I don't think it's the ram....And as far as reading the smart data I think that's an ide/sata thing...besides the drive was made in 1990 so it wouldn't even have that...

[DiskChris]

:roflmao:

[DiskChris]

After trying three different hard drives, all of which tested fine in the pc, I began thinking that it wasn't the hard drive after all. And since I shared the same scsi cable between the pc and the amiga, I knew the problem must the amiga. Using memcheck, I tested the ram a couple times, and it all came back fine. And having actually used the amiga's power supply to power the drive in the pc once, I knew the power supply was probably ok. So I donwloaded oktapussy, and enabled "slow trans" in OktagonPrefs and ever since since it's been fine.