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From: consp13@bingsune.cc.binghamton.edu (Marcus Cannava)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: dead df0: on my 2000 - help!
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Date: 30 Oct 89 22:30:16 GMT
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In article <43736@sgi.sgi.com>, vic@wookie.wpd.sgi.com (Victor Mitnick) writes:
>
> ..I tried removing the floppy disk, turning the machine off, and
turning it back
> on again, but the then I have an icon that says: "DF0: BAD" -- the machine
> seems to think that there's a disk in the floppy drive even when there isn't.
> The drive doesn't click, either, like it normally does when it's empty.
> Any df0: related commands I give say that there's a non-dos disk in df0:.
> 
 
  I had a similar problem with my Amiga 500, and it turned out to be a
bad PAULA chip (the chip that
controls the Disk I/O and various other tasks.

	That could be the problem.. It's a $69 chip (or should be). Ask your dealer.


			\marc