Re: HD Error Message

[Gary D. Adams]

Well, "sleep" was an inaccurate and incorrect term--actually, drive head 
parking or accessing. You could have a problematic drive, but I've found 
on an old Seagate (5400 rpm) at work that I sometimes get this when 
copying files. I've concluded it means the drive is being accessed too 
fast for it to deal with the data. I may be nuts, but that's what I 
think. All the drives I've ever tested that display this are fine and 
continue to be.

Gary

KWBeal wrote:
I don't think it has anything to do with sleep...I get the message when 
I am accessing the drive(s)..like in copying files from one drive to the 
other..




I've seen this message many times (in OS 9.2.2) on my clamshell iBook. 
It's a System message that I think has something to do with hard drive 
sleep recovery. When the drive does not come back as fast as the 
System thinks it should, you get the message. If you run Diskwarrior 
on it at this point, you'll discover it works fine until it tries to 
write the new replacement directory--and then it says, "Disk is 
locked." Resetting PRAM will get rid of the message. Your mileage may 
vary, but that was my experience. BTW--it never happens in X!

Gary

KWBeal wrote:

Howdy All..

System: G3 233mHz beige desktop (upgraded to G4-466), 460 RAM, 4 GB 
hd, 2-80 GB hard drives...OS 9.2.2..

Anyway here is the problem.

I recently installed a SIIG ATA card. I hooked one 80 GB hard drive 
to 1 connector and the other 80 GB drive to the other connector. Both 
set as master. I started getting the following error message:

There is a problem with the disk "---". Some information may have 
been lost.
Check any recently-used files for data loss, and ise a disk-repair 
program on the disk.


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