Re: Fluke 9100 hard disk write errors

Please send me the error code list and I will post it on my site
Art

----- Original Message -----
From: "andy" <warlords@punkass.com>
To: "Technical Tools Mail List" <techtoolslist@flippers.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 9:30 AM
Subject: [Techtoolslist] Fluke 9100 hard disk write errors

> hi all... again.
>
> Well, i've hit another brick wall in my 9100 upgrade and was wondering if
> anyone else has come across this before.
>
> Basically, the 9100 is refusing to write to the hard disk... i'm getting
> 'write error' every time i try either to copy DR1 to HDR, or even saving a
> calibration/settings file to HDR... the story so far:
>
> It all went wrong when i booted my 9100 from system 6.0 floppies, and
> copied all three system disks DR1 to HDR... when rebooted, the 9100 failed
> to load, throwing up a mixture of Error loading OS F7, or OS F4, and then
> proceeding with ERROR 244 or ERROR 205 and prompting to continue through a
> mire of root software errors. end result, the machine hung after the last
> error 'application exited abnormally internal error 102' - if anyone wants
> a
> full list of error codes, let me know...
>
> So, someone suggested formatting the hard disk, booting from floppies, and
> copying them over again... so i duly booted from the service disk, and
> formatted the drive, choosing option 5 - no dma. two options, 4 dma, 5 no
> dma... wasn't sure what to pick and couldn't find any info in the manuals
> about this. picked 5, and formatted. After doing a physical format /
> verification, results were : 74 bad (sectors) - 19.13mb available. I
> booted
> the v6.0 floppies and went to copy DR1 to HDR, and immediately got a write
> error....
>
> So i got bored and I upgraded the roms in my machine (from 27256 V3.0 to
> 27c512 V5.0) thinking it might help, can't make the problem worse i
> thought
> :)
>
> I then retried the process again and it still failed.. So i checked if
> this
> was a system disk copying problem, or a general hard disk writing problem,
> i
> went into 'setup | save system settings in userdisk' and got the very same
> write error, indicating it must be a global hdisk writing error, not a
> problem with just the disk copying section.
>
> So then i booted to the service disk, and formatted the hard disk once
> again, but this time took option 4 - dma... same as above, booted in from
> floppies and i still get the write error.
>
> I have the western digital interface and the miniscribe 8254 drive, cannon
> floppy, and 2mb ram, i have set the config options correctly from the
> service disk utility, and tried numerous times copying to hard disk, with
> this write error all the time now..
>
> i even made up a set of old 4.1(b) system disks (this was what my system
> had on it before) and tried the same things, and still this write error..
>
> I turned on the disk error reporting from the service disk, and when i get
> the write error now, it shows the address as 00000001 so its the very
> first
> write it is failing on each time..
>
>
> Bearing in mind the drive still appears to format ok, and that i had no
> previous problems with it, do you think this write error is the drive, or
> the controller, or the software mis reporting it?
>
> any help appreciated, or i'm going to be reduced to manually loading the
> system software from floppy disks everytime i want to use the damn thing,
> which will be a real pain as i do use the 9100 almost on a daily basis.
>
> ta,
>
> Andy.
>
>
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