Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!starsoft!david From: david@starsoft.UUCP (Dave Lowrey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: MSH, PcPatch, Omnitool fail on my 2000 Message-ID: Date: 18 Oct 90 11:14:01 GMT References: <08Oct90.151432.944@ckctpa.UUCP> <1285@tardis.Tymnet.COM> <2299@wn1.sci.kun.nl> Lines: 29 >In article <2299@wn1.sci.kun.nl> rhialto@cs.kun.nl (Olaf Seibert) writes: >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. > I use CrossDos, and all of a sudden, it quit working. I would try to accrss a PC disk using it, and it would just hang. The problem turned out to be a bad 8520 CIA. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- These words be mine. The company doesn't care, because I am the company! :-) Dave Lowrey | david@starsoft or {uhnix1,moray}!starsoft!david Starbound Software Group | Houston, TX | "Dare to be stupid!" -- Weird Al Yankovic