SCSI Disk Errors

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From: Captain_Kwok
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 13:54

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Is it possible that someone could diagnose the following problems that I have 
been having with my SCSI disk.

It is a seagate 84Mb and I am using OAKs SCSI card on an A5000 with RO3.1
(although I was getting these errors before upgrading the OS)

When I turn the machine on, about 90% of the time the SCSI drive seems to
start up and then park itself. 

Sometimes I can CTRL-BREAK a couple of times and this fixes it. Other times
I have to switch off and on again.

When it does finally start up correctly, about 50% of the time that I try to
write to the SCSI disk I get Broken Directory errors, although if I switch
the A5000 off and then on again they seem to disappear (or I can fix them).

Verify does not show any disc errors.

Any Ideas (or should I bin my SCSI disk?)

Cheers, Steve
ssudavss@uk.ac.reading

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