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From: 1013734@hydra.maths.unsw.OZ.AU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: SMSH still not working & Thanks for the help!
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Date: 28 May 91 06:49:25 GMT
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Reply-To: 1013734@hydra.maths.unsw.OZ.AU.unsw.oz (Peter "Silicon Head" Urbanec)
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In article <4258@polari.UUCP> wally@polari.UUCP (walter santarelli) writes:

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>any MS-DOS disks. (When I type "dir MSH:", the disk spins and LED comes
>on hanging up the drive until I reboot. I know the disks are okay, I just 
>checked them on an another machine. 
>

This sounds like a blown INDEX signal on your floppy drive. I had exactly
the same problem on my A500. The same configuration worked perfectly on
my A2500. The internal drive in the A500 had the INDEX line busted. The
external drives wouldn't work either, because the internal drive affected
the whole Shuggart bus. (That's the kind of interface that your Ami uses
to talk to the disk drives.) 
         One easy way of finding out if your disk drive is stuffed up ie.
FUBAR, is to run Xcopy (Commercial product by Cachet) version 2 or above,
and switch it to nibble mode, SYNC on INDX. Then trying to copy a disk using
the internal drive (or any others that you might have.) If it comes up with
an error message down at the bottom of the screen saying something like NO
INDEX PULSE then you know that your drive is blown. My suggestion is to get
it fixed. Chances are that you will need a new drive mechanism, but it could
be the CIA's that are at fault.

	As I said I had the same problem with exactly the same symptoms, but
there could be other reasons for the lock ups, although that seems unlikely
to me.
			Good Luck with it,
						Peter Urbanec.

				s1013734@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au
				 1013734@hydra.maths.unsw.oz.au

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