[Techtoolslist] Fluke 9100 hard disk write errors

[Art Mallet - Artfromny]

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

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "andy" <warlords at punkass.com>
To: "Technical Tools Mail List" <techtoolslist at 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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