HELP!!! AMIGA 1000 DISK PROBLEM

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From: Mark Bailey
Date: Fri, 05 May 1989 12:25

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Something strange happened to me last night.  I have an Amiga 1000, 2-Meg
Starboard and external disk drive.  I did a directory on a (Sony DSDD) 
disk in the external drive and got a Read/Write error on block 40.  I did
a diskdoctor and recovered all but one file.  This is workbench 1.2!!!

I then put the disk in the internal drive and typed:

format drive df0: name JUNK <cr>

Everything went OK until it reached

Formatting  30

Then the disk quit "gronking", the red light on the drive stayed on and the
CLI hung.  Another CLI showed Task 1 Format still running, but break 1 all
had no effect.  The status also showed FACC-II which I also run.

I finally had to reboot.  What's going on here???  Thanks in advance for
any help!!!


P.S.  I tend to get rather a lot of disk read/write errors and I did replace
the 8520's several months ago.
-- 
Mark Bailey, Integral Systems Inc.       (301) 731-4233
5000 Philadelphia Way   Suite A          via:  ...!uunet!pyrdc!isi!mark
Lanham, MD  20706-4417              -----HAVE A  :-|  DAY!!!!!!!!!!
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Subject: HELP!!! AMIGA 1000 DISK PROBLEM
Keywords: FORMAT, SYSTEM HUNG UP, HELP!!!
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Date: 5 May 89 12:25:23 GMT
Organization: Integral Systems, Inc., Lanham MD
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