Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!bagate!cbmvax!jesup From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Help:diskdrive wants to be TWO drives!! Message-ID: <15961@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 20 Nov 90 02:54:06 GMT References: <4568@swi.swi.psy.uva.nl> Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 18 In article faheyr@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Bob Fahey ) writes: >welter@swi.psy.uva.nl (Welter Richard) writes: > >>My new golem 3.5" drive mounts itself as df1: AND df3: on my A500 >>then when I insert a disk it says error validating etc, use diskdoctor etc. >>then when I do info df1: is validating, df3: is ok, and when the disk is >>removed the machine crashes, so what's wrong ??!?!? I don't know anything about "golem" drives, but as far as floppy hardware goes, it sounds like the drive is confused about what select lines it should be looking at. I advise calling the company that made it or the dealer that sold it to you. -- Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com BIX: rjesup Thus spake the Master Ninjei: "If your application does not run correctly, do not blame the operating system." (From "The Zen of Programming") ;-)