Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!labrea!rocky!rokicki From: rokicki@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Tomas Rokicki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Close Call (Supra hard drive) Message-ID: <424@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> Date: Wed, 15-Jul-87 19:33:23 EDT Article-I.D.: rocky.424 Posted: Wed Jul 15 19:33:23 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 01:58:21 EDT References: <1385@crash.CTS.COM> Reply-To: rokicki@rocky.UUCP (Tomas Rokicki) Organization: Stanford University Computer Science Department Lines: 15 Keywords: Amiga hard disk Supra horror story SCSI drives fix themselves. If your box crashes while doing a write to the drive, the SCSI drive will play with itself for a while until it repairs itself. The time this takes is dependent on the size of your disk partition; this is an excellent reason to partition a hard disk. Perhaps a 4MByte development partition where you develop your most crash-prone programs, so the box comes back up quickly. Sometimes, as happened to my CLtd drive a long time ago, the light never stops flashing. (We are talking days here.) Then it's time to worry. I turned the system off for a week, turned it back on, and everything was back. I sent the drive back to CLtd anyway . . . -tom