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16 May 2014, 17:10
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Amiga is my Goddess
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Hdd 'thinks' it is full at startup
Hi everyone, I have a question please. Sometimes my a500 hdd takes a long time to boot and loads way too much. The reason is because it 'thinks' it is full while it is booting. When i check its capacity outright in WB it reads full but after a while ( a few minutes) it shows its real capacity that of course is not full. It has always around 10-15% free space. It is 120 mb total. Any ideas on what could be wrong?
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16 May 2014, 17:23
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It's not full, it is validating. Most likely you switched it off or reset it while it was still writing to disk.
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16 May 2014, 17:53
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If you turned it off while it was not writing, but that still appens every time, then that means your hard-disk is breaking
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16 May 2014, 18:15
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16 May 2014, 18:48
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Anyway, I saw similiar cases in old Windows PCs (yeah, I know, it's a different thing [and they suck when compared to Amigas! ] but...) where HDs suddenly started checking themselves at every boot even if the computer was turned off properly. It turned out that the HD was going bust, and it did after a while.If it keeps happening, keep backups! 
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16 May 2014, 19:04
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Well, Thomas was right. In every case it happened while the hdd was working so I hope that was why. If not...  It looks ok now though. I was just curious. |
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17 May 2014, 07:54
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Validating... a huge pain... When the computer boots and the drive still blinks it is validating.. once it finishes everything should be ok. I finally switched to SFS and do not have that problem anymore.
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17 May 2014, 10:00
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http://aminet.net/package/disk/salv/DiskSafe
This program delays the reset until all write operations are finished. Of course it cannot delay a power failure, so you should always wait a few seconds before you switch it off. |
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18 May 2014, 08:09
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This only works with machines that have the soft reset feature.. The A500 is a hard reset machine.
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19 May 2014, 00:13
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mä vaan
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I also swicthed to SFS and few months later back to FFS. Not because FFS is better, I did it because with FFS there is no problem wich you can't solve. For SFS there is no proper tools to fix problems. Problem with SFS is deadend.
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