Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!sci.kun.nl!cs.kun.nl!rhialto From: rhialto@cs.kun.nl (Olaf Seibert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: MSH, PcPatch, Omnitool fail on my 2000 Message-ID: <2299@wn1.sci.kun.nl> Date: 16 Oct 90 20:36:57 GMT References: <08Oct90.151432.944@ckctpa.UUCP> <1285@tardis.Tymnet.COM> Sender: root@sci.kun.nl Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Lines: 19 In article liberato@dri.com (Jimmy Liberato) writes: | There seem to be certain B2000s that have problems also. MSH, Werner | Guenther's PcPatch 3.5", Project D's Omni Tool (makes diskcopies in | PC format), and heavily CPed games like Shadow... all fail on my | system, even when in stock configuration. I had some correspondence | with two others with exactly the same symtoms (a hang requiring a | cold boot). I was never able to narrow down what the common factor | was but it definitely seems hardware related. I would be interested in | hearing from any others with similar problems on a 2000. Was there | more than one manufacturer used for the floppy drives? My guess is a broken index pulse, so that the beginning of the track is never found. But I never got any proof for or against this theory. I'd really like to get some, though. | Jimmy Liberato liberato@dri.com -- Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert rhialto@cs.kun.nl How can you be so stupid if you're identical to me? -Robert Silverberg