Something bothering me........

[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!

[Crumb]

@T_Bone
SoftRaid! cool!
anyone has tried it?

[fragment]

CU_AMiGA wrote:
I was tucking into my tuna and pasta meal...

You were FU..?  :-o

[dandelion]

I used to have this problem with worrying regularity back when I just had an a1200 with a 2.5" HD - especially with game installs. I always found the best thing to do was to load up Disksalv. You can download earlier versions of Haynie's baby and get it to fix disk problems. It works very well and i'm sure will solve your problem. It's on aminet.

[doctorq]

If I was you I would install PFS or SFS. SFS can be found on Aminet, but I haven't tried it yet. I have only heard good things about it though.

I use PFS2 on my A1200T, and since I've installed it I haven't had 1 checksum error at all, and I installed it in december or so.

The checksum error will come if the computer uses ffs and resets while accesing the disk. The long boot time is when the disk validates itself, but it can't do the trick everytime. Sometimes you'r stuck with a partion you can only salvage by formatting it.

I tried doing the claw while I was accesing my PFS hdd, and nothing happend. It just started up without any errors, and I've tested it a couple of times.

I prefer PFS over FFS as it's more reliable, and the docs claim that it can be up to 400% faster than FFS. I haven't got that much improvement on my drive, but it's definetely faster.

[Thematic]

SFS filesystem is superior to FFS in terms of speed and reliability, but requires 68020 or better processor (tbc. not 68000/68010). It does currently lack a few features that FFS has, so if you are not sure whether something can be done on SFS volumes, consult the documentation or use another filesystem in that case. That's acceptable because it is considered beta.

Perhaps SFS isn't recommended in those cases where a successful uninterrupted boot is more important than anything (unsupervised/remote use), as it handles error situations more carefully and will impede the boot at least if the volume which is being booted from, is affected. For most users/uses however, SFS is a lot more attractive than FFS.
P.S. In the past I've lost a small amount of files that I did myself, so: always backup these at least.

[Borut]

SFS I think is also on Your OS3.9 CD.

[CU_AMiGA]

fragment wrote:

CU_AMiGA wrote:
I was tucking into my tuna and pasta meal...

You were FU..?  :-o

Yes Tuna and Pasta with tinned tomato sauce and onion is a lovely meal! I can't get enough of it! I recommend you try it! :-)

@Everyone/problem

What i will do is i will wait until i get anymore trouble or if the problem becomes permanent. I have also backed up the important conents of my hard drive so there is no worry there. If the problem continues i will try out a new file system. But which one? PFS or SFS? If those don't solve the problem then it could be the hard drive. :-(

Could it also be to do with the Power Flyer not being fully inserted? I had to install some IC Sockets to lift the Power Flyer board over the Blizzardvision but i couldn't fit them clamps around the whole thing, so i just left it! Also, the IC Socket are meant to be soldered into the Amiga IC Socket (for the ROMS). I think i have messed up a little!  :-P

Hopefully, i wont spit out any pasta and tuna again if this situation don't occur again! :-)

[CU_AMiGA]

Oh no! It happened again! :-( This time i didn't need to reboot boot. I got that stupid checksum error message and about 10 seconds later, it was okay! But this doesn't look good at all. To make matters worse, i almost choked on a piece of bacon i was eating at the time! :-( Due to the shock!

[ajk]

Maybe you should not eat while using computers  :-D

Whatever the reason for the problems, though, the most important thing is to make backups. All else can wait.

[CU_AMiGA]

Don't worry. I have made all the important backups and put them onto a smaller Hard Drive. That was the first thing i done! :-)

[olegil]

I would advice against changing filesystem until he finds out what REALLY caused it. Introducing yet another point of failure isn't a good idea.

CHECK YOUR MAXTRANSFER SETTING
CHECK YOUR CABLE

If it doesn't do it again, chalk it up as accident. If it does, you should start worrying :-)

[CU_AMiGA]

I am worrying! :-( How would i check the max setting, i mean, i know how to, but how would i know the max setting! (if you know what i mean!) :-) Cables are just fine. I am having curry tonight, lets hope the incident never occurs again! ;-)

[CU_AMiGA]

Oh dear! I turned on my beloved Amiga yesterday evening and a few seconds later i got a requester saying "Drive MDH0 is not a DOS Disk" i think it was something like that, i can't remember. MDH0 being the Workbench partition. Anyway it didn't load up Workbench, so i reseted the machine and it loaded up again no problem. I get that sinking feeling i will have to reformat the partition. Can someone please tell me how would i know the max transfer valua of my Hard Drive?!

Good job i wasn't having cornflakes at the time, like i was about to, or else i would have choked and died! :-)

[Cyberus]

Maybe you should not eat while using computers

Aww, c'mon! I've spent hours in front of a computer, sandwiches, cups of tea, beers, glasses of wine all get devoured while sitting in front of it. I'm sure most people do it; Just like kids sitting in front of the TV to eat their dinner....

[CU_AMiGA]

Well, it has been two weeks now and i haven't had a repeat of that incident. Maybe that is the last i will hear from it! :-) I hope!