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Offline MigaManTopic starter

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Hard Drive Question
« on: August 02, 2006, 01:12:43 AM »
I have an A600 and I was using the computer and all of a sudden the HD Light is staying on.  It seems like everything is working properly (I can still access the HD, and I even copied files to it) except for the fact that the graphics mem keeps changing slightly.  I also tried doing a couple of power cycles and resets and still the light stays on.  It comes on right when the machine turns on too.  Anyone ever see this before?
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Re: Hard Drive Question
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2006, 02:04:15 AM »
I am using FFS.  I just formatted the HD today, and it seemed to be working fine.  I will try validating the HD again.
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Re: Hard Drive Question
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2006, 10:36:39 PM »
Ok, so I let the drive sit there validating for about an hour and it still hadn't finished.  So I decided to install a Hitachi 20GB that I had lying around and it HD light is still lit up.  I am still able to access the HD though.  This drive was manufactured in 2002.  The older drive was an IBM made in 1997.  As long as it works I guess I'll use it.
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Re: Hard Drive Question
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2006, 10:59:07 PM »
I'm just worried that the constant working of the HD will do a number on HD life.
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Re: Hard Drive Question
« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2006, 12:33:53 AM »
Well then I only have two years left if the HD has been used for 4....
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Re: Hard Drive Question
« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2006, 11:53:20 AM »
The original hard drive that I had in was 2GB.  The new one is 20GB.  I let it sit for over an hour with the original one in.
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Re: Hard Drive Question
« Reply #6 on: August 04, 2006, 10:47:18 PM »
With the 20GB hard drive in, I have a 1GB and 1.8 GB partitions.  The weird thing is when I turned on the Amiga today, it seems like its working normal now.  Now it just seems like it is randomly reading the HD when I'm not doing anything.  But, the light is not staying constantly on now.  I ran "info" in the shell and it tells me the status on my two partitions are "read/write", so I guess it is ok now.  It's just weird that it has been doing it the whole week and all of a sudden just stopped.


EDIT:  Nevermind, after about 20 min. the light is solid again.  I was thinking maybe it was something about formatting it with directory cache on so I reformatted and still have the same problem.
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