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From:         Dennis Robert Gorrie <GORRIEDE@max.cc.uregina.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject:      Dead Drive?
Message-ID: <50836@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Date: 15 Apr 91 22:04:40 GMT
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I have this wierd problem with my A1000 internal floppy drive.
It has worked fine for 4 yrs, but now it is not booting correctly.
It will read the kickstart disk fine, but when I put in workbench,
it steps the heads two times and then gives me an "Error validating disk".

Now for the strange part... it only does this below 20 degrees celcius.
If I take my hairdryer and blow it into the drive for a few seconds,
and then click on retry, it boots fine.  I have taken the drive appart
(as far as the tools I have would allow) and could not find anything
wrong.  Any ideas?  Am I destined to buy a new drive just because I live
in Canada, or should I just move south?


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|Dennis Gorrie                 'Sudden de-compression Sucks!'           |
|gorriede@max.cc.uregina.ca                                             |
|gorrie@meena.cc.uregina.ca                                             |
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