I had a problem with my Amigs running SFS where it threw a guru while browsing the web (IBrowse can be real flaky unless the stack settings are spot on, doh!) and the machine would continually crash upon reboot.
There was absolutely no way I could access the drive, I couldn't even boot with no startup and view the partition.
The only way I could get my Amiga to boot was to disable the errant drive in the early startup screen or to boot from floppy, whereby the machine wouldn't recognise the drive anyway. Either way the data was lost as I had to reformat the drive and start from scratch, but hey that just proves the importance of regular backups, right?
Anyway, I discovered the problem was limited to partitions on my Samsung and Fujitsu drives, which repeatedly lunched themselves in a similar fashion. My elderly Western Digital 420Mb Hdd would happily survive a guru in the middle of a read/write and would boot with no problems.
