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From: depeche@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Sam Alan EZUST)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Supra HD clock battery
Message-ID: <3943@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 10 Sep 90 18:18:56 GMT
References: <997@christopher-robin.cs.bham.ac.uk>
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
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In article <997@christopher-robin.cs.bham.ac.uk> cjr@christopher-robin.UUCP (Chris Ridd <RiddCJ>) writes:

>  The real-time clock on my Supra drive has failed after about 18
>months.  Has anyone any advice on what battery to get and how to
>replace it?  The current (no current :-P) battery feels like it's
>soldered in, so I'd appreciate some suggestions before I use brute
>strength and break the thing.



IT IS NOT THE BATTERY!!!! There was a huge batch of SUPRA clock chips which
are BAD, and killed the battery quite quickly. You need to send your hd
back to SUPRA, where they will replace the chip with one that works, for
FREE. I had this done and my clock chip works great now.


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|S. Alan Ezust                                |  depeche@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca|
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