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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A1000 floppy flakies
Message-ID: <19815@cup.portal.com>
Date: 23 Jun 89 10:27:50 GMT
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Mary Bailey laments the floppy errors with his A1000 ...

I used to have the same, identical problem.  Tracked it down to bad AC power.

For some reason, refrigerator(s) kicking in, turning on/off flourescent lamps
or modems, etc. anywheres in the building would cause excessive corruption of
floppies.

I solved the proper with a proper surge protector; not one floppy error in over
3 years now.  More specifically: I added "SAFE" model 500 and 1200A SPS systems
to each Amiga (and UNIX) station and now I can also ride-through up to a 1 hour
power outage also.  These units, besides regenerating clean AC power, also
protect againt over-/under-voltage, and have transient, surge and hash
suppression/protection.

If you don't care about power backup, at LEAST get a proper surge protector.

I'm going to harp on the word "PROPER" forever.  Most of the products on the
market are total junk (including the crapola from Radio Shack.)

If you need convincing, I'd be happy to enclose a digitized side-by-side
photo of, for example, an opened Radio Shack and an opened GTE unit.  You'd
then quickly ask: "Why hasn't the FTC come down on Radio Shack for consumer
fraud?"  No kidding.

SOme surge protectors actually do more HARM, because their poor design will
AMPLIFY some spikes and transients.  No kidding.

At least you won't see more than 4,000 volts going into your Amiga, because
that's the flashover point of the standard AC power plugs used in this
country.

And before everyone gets all uptight about this, I'm not specifically picking
on Radio Shack, but just citing their product as one of many that is simply
NOT worth buying.

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR)  ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]