[Techtoolslist] Fluke 9100 hard disk write errors

[John Robertson]

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 :-#)#