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From: joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Flakey Floppy, the saga continues
Message-ID: <yPywP5w163w@valnet>
Date: 22 Sep 90 20:01:57 GMT
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C506634@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU (Eric Edwards) writes:

> 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?
> 
> Eric Edwards: c506634 @    "The 3090.  Proof that by applying state of the
> Inet: umcvmb.missouri.edu   art technology to an obsolete architecture,
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Hiya, Eric....nope..never seen the problem but I'll ask at my users group 
about it...

-Joseph Hillenburg

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