Disk validation issues

[SkuldChan]

I've got this Amiga 4000 with a Phase 5 PPC board (233 mhz 604/50 MHz 68060) with 128 megs of ram on board running OS 3.9. Its never been too terrifically stable to be honest, and the other day it crashed while I was browsing the web - the system came back up and it wanted to validate the disk.

I get the error > "DH1 Program Failed (error #80000003). wait for disk activity to finish. suspend/reboot"

This is on a 6.5 gig Seagate UW scsi disk connected to the phase 5 controller.

I booted off an OS 3.1 disk, same error.

Is there any way to resolve this or will have to format the disk and start over? I'm not entirely sure how that will work because even when I run the installer to do this you can hear the drive trying to validate and eventually when I get this error the rest of the machine becomes un-usable - even if I hit suspend.

I suppose if its a phase 5 problem I could drop the old cpu board in there and find if that helps (actually now that I think about this I can't - since the disk is scsi). I rather not reinstall. The toaster software doesn't like installing onto a disk greater than 2 gigs and it took a while to get setup.

[amiga1260]

Let the Amiga try to validate your harddisk. When the HD led is off, try to reset the Amiga. Now it shouldn't show the error message.

[Thomas]

If the partition task crashes, it cannot validate. However, if the HDD LED signals activity, you should indeed wait for it to end.

If there is no activity but the error still persists, get this program: http://home.t-online.de/home/thomas-rapp/validate.lha

Open a Shell window and enter Validate DH1: off

This will mark the partition's bitmap valid and the disk validator will not start on the next reboot.

However, the file system is still damaged and using it might cause more damage. So the first thing you should do is to backup all files, format the partition and copy all files back.

If during the backup you encounter the crash again, remember the damaged file and don't attempt to copy it again.

Bye,
Thomas

[orange]

or get pfs..
you could also try repairing it with QuarterBackTools

[SkuldChan]

Yeah it actually stops validating the hdd after I get the dead end message - which is why I kinda thought maybe it was the cpu/controller or something. So I'll try Thomas's tool, back up my hdd and reformat. Fun fun .

Thank you for the help! I'm sure it will work out .