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From: bach@USCN.BITNET (BitNet Users Of Southern Tech)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Drive Troubles
Message-ID: <89080821400266A.ADEN@USCN.USCN.UGA.EDU>
Date: 9 Aug 89 02:40:08 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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Hi.  I've gotten some suggestions on how to fix my problem, but so far I've
had no luck in fixing it so I thought I should give some more information.

I've got an Amiga 2500 with a Rodime(st506) drive and a Seagate 277n(SCSI)
drive hooked up to a 2090a controller.  The problem I'm having is with the
SCSI drive.  The Seagate is split into 3 partitions: RES2:, GH1:, and GH2:.
The problem is that the partition GH1 is causing a 'Not a DOS disk error.'
The second partition on that drive, GH2, still work s fine.

I've tried everything I can think of to bring it back with no luck.
When I tried to do a complete format of the partition I got the message
Formatting track 3, 403 to go
and the program ran for about 15 seconds before  my system locked up.
When I tried to Format the partition in Quick mode I got the message
  Format failed - cannot open device
I've tried re-Preping the drive, but all I get is
Device not PREPed.

I'm at a loss as to the next step.  It really suprises me that the first
partition can be so screwed and the second partition works so well.
Luckily I did backups the day before the problem occured.  Whew!!!!


Just in case the information may help here is the way the SCSI unit is
layed out in my Mountlist.


GH1:
    Device = hddisk.device
    FileSystem = l:FastFileSystem
    Unit   = 3
    Flags  = 0
    Surfaces  = 6
    BlocksPerTrack = 26
    Reserved = 2
    Interleave = 3
    LowCyl = 3  ;  HighCyl = 405
    Buffers = 32
    GlobVec = -1
    BufMemType = 0
    Mount = 1
    DosType = 0x444F5301
    StackSize = 4000
#

GH2:
    Device = hddisk.device
    FileSystem = l:FastFileSystem
    Unit   = 3
    Flags  = 0
    Surfaces  = 6
    BlocksPerTrack = 26
    Reserved = 2
    Interleave = 3
    LowCyl = 406
    HighCyl = 811
    Buffers = 32
    GlobVec = -1
    BufMemType = 0
    Mount = 0
    DosType = 0x444F5301
    StackSize = 4000
#


RES2: Device = hddisk.device
      Unit   = 3
      Flags  = 0
      Surfaces  = 6
      BlocksPerTrack = 26
      Reserved = 2
      LowCyl = 0  ;  HighCyl = 2
      Buffers = 1
      BufMemType = 5
#