Hard Drive Question

[Homer]

I have no techie figures here, but I remember my first A1200 drive being 80Mb, and taking hours to revalidate after this happened, even with a 68030 accelerator. Anybody have an idea of time per Mb ?? :-?

[Thomas]

MigaMan wrote:
I let it sit for over an hour with the original one in.

It shouldn't take more than a few minutes.

You should first check if it is really validation or if it's only the HDD light.

Open a shell window and enter

info

This will list all mounted drives. If one of your HDD partitions has a status of "validating", then let it do its work.

If all drives are either read/write or read only or "no disk in drive", then it's not the disk-validator which causes the HDD light to stay lit.

With the disk-validator running you should hear the HDD working and the boot process should need twice as long as usual. Also you cannot write to the validating partition and it shows as 100% full.

Bye,
Thomas

[JaXanim]

@MigaMan
You said you'd been writing to the drive OK, so it can't be validating, it's something else.
How much space does it have left?

JaX

[EDIT: Oh, I see you just reformatted too. I'll get me coat.}

[MigaMan]

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.