Hard drive failure?

[djkoelkast]

I've had some hard drive issues in the past, but I was kind of able to fix them. Now I've made backups through Amiga Explorer of all partitions (so I have .hdf files of all) but one.
That one is a games partition, not the most important, but it would be nice if I can fix this.
I can backup until about 70%, then it stops. Is there something I can do about this, when I boot up I get this message (see attachment).
All other partitions on the same drive work fine, so it might be a configuration problem? Once all partitions were gone, I've managed to get them back through HDToolBox, re-entering all data partition by partition.

The image is because of the scandoubler, I'm still looking for a solution for my FlickerMagic that misses the cable

[Thomas]

45 is a SCSI error. If you rule out problems with the SCSI cable or termination, then there is a real hardware read/write error on the disk which the disk cannot repair itself.

The only thing you can do during backup is to ignore the read error and continue with the next block or file (depending on whether you make an image backup or a file backup).

I don't think that Amiga Explorer can ignore read errors.

http://thomas-rapp.homepage.t-online.de/downloads/tsgui.lha can, but it runs on the Amiga and needs enough harddisk space on the Amiga to create the image file.

[djkoelkast]

It's the IDE drive, not the SCSI, because the SCSI drive runs on cyberscsi.device
I think I do have TSGui, just didn't know it could do harddrives as well.

[Thomas]

Check the version. The one from Aminet is too old.

All new features are hidden in the menu (press right mouse button).

[djkoelkast]

I'll try, thanks!

[Thomas]

It's the IDE drive, not the SCSI, because the SCSI drive runs on cyberscsi.device

Well, command 28 is HD_SCSICMD a.k.a. Direct-SCSI.

Is the drive bigger than 4GB? If not, I couldn't imagine a reason why SFS uses Direct-SCSI.

Is the drive bigger than 8GB? If it is, which software do you use to deal with the limit? SFS alone cannot do it.

[djkoelkast]

I don't know at the moment, I tried TSGui but it wants to have the full size of the partition (which is 2gb) free on another drive. I don't have it.
There was only about 250mb of files on that partition, so I copied it into another folder of another partition, seems like everything is ok now.

It's not my installation, it's what came with the A4000. I don't want to use this harddrives anymore, I'd like to store them in a safe place and work with the backups I ran.