[Coco] Hard drive problems (was: Build a list of ISP's that carry UseNet Bit.Listserv.CoCo)

[John E. Malmberg]

Ray Watts wrote:
> 
> The computer acted like a virus had attacked it, but I doubt it since I 
> run Netscape 7.0.2 on Mac OS 9.1.   Nobody bothers with that.  The best 
> explanation I could come up with was that a fragmented file in the OS 
> ended up on a bad sector.  Every time I repaired the file system, it 
> would work for a while then corrupt itself again.

I had a similar set of problems this summer/fall season, the root cause 
turned out to be two bad hard drives near the end of their warrantee.

My data hard drive started losing data, and an image backup showed much 
corruption.  After the corruption was repaired, the drive died on the 
restoration pass.

The system hard drive just got slower and slower until it stopped 
responding to commands.

No problems since the drives were replaced.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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