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From: bach%USCN.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (BitNet Users Of Southern Tech)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: RE: Drive troubles
Message-ID: <21673@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 14 Aug 89 17:58:29 GMT
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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