Re: Problem with Vulcan hard drive

[goldbug@oanet.com@oanet.com]

In <4h4mvl$7li@news.iastate.edu>, <telsasser@po-1.clinton.k12.ia.us> writes:
>I have a 40 meg Vulcan hard drive on an apple IIgs.  About a year ago it 
>started to freeze up for no reason, when I tried to reboot it would give 
>me a message like "please insert the disk AE1"(AE1 is a partition on the 
>hard drive).  I used the special feature in the partition manager ( the 
>one where you type AE) to search for bad blocks but it would still 
>freeze up after I was on the computer for a while.  I also tried to 
>reformate it and repartition it.  The only way to it to boot was to shut 
>it off for a few minutes and restart it but it will still freeze up 
>after a while.  After a year it still does the same thing.  Does anyone 
>know anything else I could do to try and fix it?

Hmm, sounds very familiar. I had this problem and before long I started to
get messages warning me that the disk was getting physically damaged.

I ended up chucking the IDE drive and tossed a SCSI drive in there instead,
but at the moment, my RamFAST is on the fritz.