Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!purdue!gatech!udel!mmdf From: bach%USCN.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (BitNet Users Of Southern Tech) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: RE: Drive troubles Message-ID: <21672@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 14 Aug 89 17:55:55 GMT Lines: 33 Well so far I've gotten some suggestions from fellow users, but unfortunately notthing has helped so far. Also I got one message from a fellow 2500 owner who has a Seagate 296N instead of the 277N that I have, but he has the same problems Some of you have suggested that the first partition, RES2:, should have only two cylinders allocated to it. This might make sense except for a what seems to be yet another limitation in the Prep software. I've got a couple of questions that maybe someone from Commodore can answer. 1) Why doesn't Prep support changing the interleave on a HD? 2) Why is the minimum cylinder for parking the heads set to 2? This doesn't allow the user to have the heads parked over the two reserved tracks in the reservered partition, RES?:. That means that one of the tracks used for storing data must be used for a parking track. This doesn't seem to be a good idea. 3) Last, has anyone seen and solved the problem I've been having? I've tried changing the mountlist has some people have suggested with no effect. I tend to think that even if I format the drive with one partition I'll have the same problem. There has to be some fundamental problem that can cause PREP to fail, and FORMAT to lockup. I've spoken to my dealer, but he hasn't any idea of what could be causing the problem. There are no loose cables or any other obvious hardware problems. Thanks for any help that you can offer. Shawn Hayes Bach@uscn.edu