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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
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Reply-To: rokicki@rocky.UUCP (Tomas Rokicki)
Organization: Stanford University Computer Science Department
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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