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From: joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: problem w.   Teak floppy drive
Keywords: Ignatz, Kwazy, Offiser Dog
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Date: 2 Oct 90 22:17:38 GMT
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whinery@hale.ifa.hawaii.edu (Alan Whinery) writes:

> In article <Yb11rIS00Voy4KFERa@andrew.cmu.edu> re0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Ronald W
> >
> >   I just purchases a teak drive real cheap for use as a second internal
> >drive in my 2000.  Apparently the drive isn't signalling when a disk is
> >inserted.  Does anyone know if this is a limiting feature of the drive, or d
> >I screw something up.  Right now it seems to believe there is always a
> 
> Obviously, teak is not a proper material for disk drives. I would say 
> Oak or North American Cherry. Sometimes a Maple drive is nice, but beware
> of the less expensive pine and fir drives. Too much sap. I know I've had
> one too many gooey disks to ever buy another soft pine disk drive. 
> 
> Glad I could help.
> 
> Alan
> whinery@hale.ifa.hawaii.edu

I think he means "Teac" drives, produced by Teac Corp. of japan.

-Joseph Hillenburg

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