James I just mount the drive when I want to load or save, and immediately unmount it when I am finished with the task. I always thought it was just my configuration, because Quantum drives are known to have problems. Now I think it's the sampler, or just the black magic of SCSI. Hope your drive works well.
lars -- +++pleiadian aka larzmarz+++ http://www.mp3.com/djpleiadian James Smith wrote: > Lars, > > Cool, so do you mount the drive when you want to load and save and then > unmount it imediately afterwards? This whole problem had been driving me > mad - I backed up the hard disk on the A3000 yesterday and reformatted the > drive, so we'll see how it does now... > > To be honest, I've never quite uderstood the mount / unmount function - it > reminds me of the old school 'park' thing that you used to have to do with > old hard disks.... > > Anyways, thanks for the advice.... > > James > Flex Records / Turbulence > E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > FLEX034 - Phobia & Piper - 'Still Want Your Touch' b/w 'Countermeasures' - > Out November > FLEX035 - Networx - 'Klip' b/w 'Escape Hatch' - Out Soon... > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Next Turbulence Saturday 9th February 2002 > Newcastle University Students Union > Grooverider (Radio 1 / Prototype) > Phobia & Piper (Residents) > Info : 07974 255740 > or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.turbulencecrew.co.uk > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "larzmarz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Drum & Bass Arena Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 8:23 AM > Subject: [dnb-prod] Re: Forgot to mention.. RE: A3000 issues > > > Yes! That drives me crazy, no pun intended. I use a Quantum Fireball > > inside my A3000. I used to get that all the time. Files would > > spontaneuosly corrupt. It was very frustrating. The way I solved the > > problem - I reformatted the drive. I hooked up an external SCSI Jaz > > drive and formatted a jaz disk to backup my samples and programs before > > reformatting. Make sure you have enough partitions so as not to exceed > > the maximum partition size. Once you reformat, try to only mount the > > drive when necessary for loading/saving. Especially when do sample > > dumps. I found that it occured more often when "Bulk Protect" was > > turned off, and during sample transfers. By using these habits, I seem > > to have minimized the problem. I hope this helps. > > > > lars > > > > > > James Smith wrote: > > > > > I forgot to ask in my last post if anyone is having problems with > > > interrnal SCSI hard disks attached to an A3000. Recently I seem to be > > > having all sorts of problems, ranging from invalid file type errors to > > > entire volumes going missing. Sometimes if I unmount and then remount > > > the hard disk they appear, sometimes they don't - It's starting to get > > > a little worrying now...Anyone had a similiar thing happen with the > > > A3000? > > > > > > James > > > Flex Records / Turbulence > > > E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > FLEX034 - Phobia & Piper - 'Still Want Your Touch' b/w > > > 'Countermeasures' - Out November > > > FLEX035 - Networx - 'Klip' b/w 'Escape Hatch' - Out Soon... > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > Next Turbulence Saturday 9th February 2002 > > > Newcastle University Students Union > > > Grooverider (Radio 1 / Prototype) > > > Phobia & Piper (Residents) > > > Info : 07974 255740 > > > or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > www.turbulencecrew.co.uk > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > > > > > > Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk > > > You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > > +++pleiadian aka larzmarz+++ > > http://www.mp3.com/djpleiadian > > > > > > > > --- > > Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk > > You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --- > Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk > You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
