Re: Fluke 9100 hard disk write errors

At 2:30 PM +0000 12/30/06, andy wrote:
>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...
>...
> 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.
>

Have you looked into upgrading to a SCSI drive? The archives of TTL
cover this as I recall... September to December 2002.

John :-#)#

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Received on Sat Dec 30 12:31:04 2006