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From: krentz@mentor.com (Ken Rentz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Another sick Amiga
Keywords: Floppy
Message-ID: <1990Mar16.161433.14948@mentor.com>
Date: 16 Mar 90 16:14:33 GMT
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I have an Amiga 500 (aprox. 2 years old, purchased used), that just lost
it's floppy drive.  I just hooked up an Avatex modem, and within 5 minutes
(before I even had a chance to try to use the modem), I was informed that
the boot disk was bad.  After rebooting, there was no response from the
drive at all.  The drive light lights up on reset but there is no gronking
or clicking, and the requestor hand is all that will appear on the screen.

I was told when I purchased the modem that the 500 uses a standard serial cable.
This seems true since the modem doesn't use the pins the Amiga wants to put
power out on.  Still the timing of the failure seems strange.

I would appreciate any help availiable on this problem.  I'd rather not spent the
money to have the shop look at it if the problem is minor, and in any case, I don't
want to have the thing break again if the problem is in the modem.




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