Re: hard drive problem; seeking help

[erik@hypermall.com (Erik Kloeppel)]

In article <hK0eO95.ostman@delphi.com>, Andrew Smith <ostman@delphi.com> wrote:

> I have been having major hard drive problems. Off and on, I have extreme
> cases where my partitions get many sudden problems. Deliverance shows errors
> such as "data block already in use, invalid storage type, file structure
> damaged, illegal charachters in filename, incorrect block count, bad file
> count, etc.) I have had times where deliverance would find over two hundred
> such errors in one 30 meg partition. On occasion, it crashes while trying to
> repair the partition.
>  
> I have a ramfast scii card, a shadow hard drive, and 5 1/4 megs of RAM.
> (Apple piggybacked to a CVTech GS memory board.) The system self test checks
> okay.
>  
> Any ideas or suggestions?

personally, I'd start by trashing Deliverance. Get ProSEL16 instead. 
Beyond that, well, We'll assume you've not added a new drive, so
termination shouldn't be a problem.  The power supply on your drive could
be going, you could have an Init/Cdev/FST conflict.. 

have you tried re-installing your system softwware?

Lurch

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