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From: MJAKUBOW@drunivac.BITNET ("While drinking, the glass fell and shattered.")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: 1010 drive flop
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Date: 12 Mar 91 05:12:00 GMT
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   I recently bought a used 1010 floppy drive, which seems to have some
very peculiar and highly annoying quirks.  When I take out a disk from
this drive, sometimes it never acknowledges that action, thinking
the disk is still in there and displaying a "read/write error in df1:".
At other times, taking out the disk results in a crash if I try to
access any drive.  (I can still move the pointer, etc., but the
machine will not execute any programs or instructions.)  Is the drive
too used or can I do something to fix this?  Thanks for any help--this
problem is getting more and more annoying each time I have to reboot.
(My system is an A500 w/ 1 MB...no unusual or strange hardware attachments.)

Mariusz Jakubowski
mjakubow@drunivac.bitt