Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!syma!leilabd From: leilabd@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Leila Burrell-Davis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Supra HD clock battery Message-ID: <3429@syma.sussex.ac.uk> Date: 10 Sep 90 18:05:37 GMT References: <997@christopher-robin.cs.bham.ac.uk> <1990Sep9.164405.9312@ultra.com> Organization: Computing Service, University of Sussex, UK Lines: 20 cjr@cs.bham.ac.uk (Chris Ridd ) 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. The battery in my Supra disk also went very quickly. I contacted the UK importers, Frontier Software in Harrogate, (from whom I bought it) and they supplied a new one free of charge. A friend with a soldering iron fitted the new one. The new battery also failed very quickly and I phoned Frontier again. They recognised that this was a common problem and this time they sent another battery plus replacement (clock?) chip, also free of charge. I've had no further trouble and was very happy with the response from Frontier. -- Leila Burrell-Davis, Computing Service, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Tel: +44 273 678390 Fax: +44 273 678470 Email: leilabd@syma.sussex.ac.uk (JANET: leilabd@uk.ac.sussex.syma)