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From: C506634@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU (Eric Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Flakey Floppy, the saga continues
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Date: 22 Sep 90 05:50:07 GMT
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Help!  On my three floppy A500 only two disks will ever write properly and
 usually it's only one.  This changes over time and on cold boots.  I don't
think it's the drives.  The Pioneer was checked out recently and the Supra
is brand new but exibits the same behavoir.

If i use only one external drive, the external drive NEVER writes correctly.

I've tried the swapping the 8520's, that didn't help.  It doesn't matter what
i boot from.  The local service person is stumped and so am I.

Can someone with Commodore or ANYONE who knows something about this problem
please respond?

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