Life sucks once again, or: how a HD totally messed up Odin's evening/night

[PMC]

Odin,

Sorry to hear about your hard drive problems dude.

If it's any help, some drives seem to be prone to corrupting the RDB at the slightest excuse.  The most robust HDD I ever had was a 420Mb Western Digital that never let me down once.

I fitted a bigger drive (beyond 4.3 Gig) and sure enough the inevitable happened.  Booting up the Amiga would result in a Guru every time until I removed the drive or disabled it in the early startup menu. Didn't matter what filesystem I used either :pissed:

I'll ask a very stupid question....  Did you run a quick format or did you run a full format on the drive when you originally installed it?  The stability of the filesystem seems to be much better if you run a full format.

Don't shoot the miggy just yet!

[PMC]

odin wrote:
Full format I think. I always do a full format when doing a clean install on something.

Wise move.  I ended up fitting a 4.3 Gig boot drive and a 15 Gig drive split between two partitions.  

The end result was that I could back up each partition onto two others, as my total file useage never exceeded 25% (boot partition 10%) so I could afford to be generous with storage.

However, backing the lot up took bloody ages...  :roll: