Something bothering me........

[CU_AMiGA]

Hello!

I was tucking into my tuna and pasta meal (yum! yum!) and turned on my Amiga and was about to have a game of Wipeout 2097, when something was bothering me..........

The Workbench screen loaded up, but i got a requester saying "Workbench (partition) has a checksum error at xxxxxxx". Spitting out peices of pasta, due to the shock, i had to clean up the mess and look at the problem. Anyway, this meant that i could not open up any games or programs, due to this error. But after i left the machine on for 5 minutes, the problem seems to solve itself. I am glad to say that my Amiga now works okay.

But this not the first time this problem has occured, and i fear it may happen again, and may wreck further havok on my beloved Amiga, just after i have sorted out the problems concerning Warp and Power Up.

So, can anyone tell me what could possibly cause this problem and how can i put a stop to it. Before its too late! Put me out of my misery please!

Regards,

[duesi]

Are you using FFS ?

[CU_AMiGA]

I am using the software that cam with the power flyer and Amiga OS 3.9. So i think so yes.

[Framiga]

@CU_AMiGA

backup soon your boot partition.

Then double check your EIDE flat cable and . . .reformat (QUICK) the partition.

Sometimes these checksum errors, occours with a wrong MaxTransfer value also.

Ciao

[CU_AMiGA]

Framiga wrote:
@CU_AMiGA

backup soon your boot partition.

Then double check your EIDE flat cable and . . .reformat (QUICK) the partition.

Sometimes these checksum errors, occours with a wrong MaxTransfer value also.

Ciao

Oh no! That sounds a bit extreme! :-( Is this the only way? I will do it if i have to. Wouldn't a full format work better than a quick format, as this is what i done before. Also, would i have to worry about the Hard Drive settings?! I thinm the IDE cable is okay, as it is red bit points the same way as the CDROM IDE cable, and that works fine.

Thanks,

[xeron]

If it works at all, the cable is in the right way. As long as you make a full backup of your system every week or so, you could leave it until it has a permanent error before reformatting.

[Borut]

That happens normaly when the Amiga turns off while accessing the disk.
Normaly no problem if You are carefully whilst switching off - but it could happen when a guru or systemlock appears.
Did U recognize a slower bootprocess the first time?

[T_Bone]

http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/~aminet/disk/misc/SoftRaid.readme

 :-)  Dying to try this

[lionstorm]

Install turboval (available from aminet) just in case your disk gets invalid (works with FFS only)
Lio

[Framiga]

@ xeron

but please . . .i wasn't speaking about a wrong insertion of the cable but a failure or a bad contacts of the flat cable!!! eh!!

With those kind of random checksum errors, the flat cable is one of the first thing to check (the integrity)

Ciao

[CU_AMiGA]

xeron wrote:
If it works at all, the cable is in the right way. As long as you make a full backup of your system every week or so, you could leave it until it has a permanent error before reformatting.

Thats exactly what i thought!

Borut wrote:
That happens normaly when the Amiga turns off while accessing the disk.
Normaly no problem if You are carefully whilst switching off - but it could happen when a guru or systemlock appears.
Did U recognize a slower bootprocess the first time?

That might explain it. I can't see whether my Hard Drive is accessing or not sometimes, cos the little LED cable that connects between the Power Flyer and pin 38 on the IDE (if i remember) didn't work. And it normally does happen after a system lock, not guru though. I have only had a slow boot-up process once. And thats when i has to use the Amiga OS 3.9 emergency disk to see what the devil was going on. Fixed itself in the end though, like i said.

T_Bone wrote:
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/~aminet/disk/misc/SoftRaid.readme

 :-)  Dying to try this

lionstorm wrote:
Install turboval (available from aminet) just in case your disk gets invalid (works with FFS only)
Lio

Will do! Thanks.

Framiga wrote:
@ xeron

but please . . .i wasn't speaking about a wrong insertion of the cable but a failure or a bad contacts of the flat cable!!! eh!!

With those kind of random checksum errors, the flat cable is one of the first thing to check (the integrity)

Ciao

How would i definately know this and how would i go about this?

[Framiga]

CU_AMIGA wrote:

How would i definately know this and how would i go about this?


if the flat cable is old, replace it :-) (the cheaper and safest way)

Anyway, if you want to do a good job, backup your SYS: partition and reformat (why not in SFS).

Good luck :-)

[CU_AMiGA]

Framiga wrote:
CU_AMIGA wrote:

How would i definately know this and how would i go about this?


if the flat cable is old, replace it :-) (the cheaper and safest way)

Anyway, if you want to do a good job, backup your SYS: partition and reformat (why not in SFS).

Good luck :-)

I don't think it is the cable. It is only a couple of months old and i brought it off a mate who is into computers. I will back-up all my SYS: partition and reformat. Don't know whether to do this quick or full format though. What is SFS, another file system? Is it better than the one i currently use, the one in Amiga OS 3.9, i think its FFS.

Regards,

[amigamad]

It could also be that the drive is wearing out ?. :-)

[CU_AMiGA]

amigamad wrote:
It could also be that the drive is wearing out ?. :-)

Oh no! :-( That has really turned the tables around! I hope not, the Hard Drive was only made last year and i purchased it this year off AmiBench, along with the Blizzard PPC!