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From:         Dennis Robert Gorrie <GORRIEDE@max.cc.uregina.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject:      Dead Drive ?
Message-ID: <55629@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 91 15:28:15 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".
When it steps the heads, it makes a really wierd grinding noise that
I don't hear when it boots up 'properly'.

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?

I have tried several new copies of WorkBench disks as well as my
originals, with the same results as above.  Also, the drive gives
me write errors when I try to copy huge files (500k) to floppy.
However, it does diskcopies fine, and it will back up my 160 meg
hard disk AND restore over 140 floppies fine (QuarterBack 2.3).

Maybe I need some of that CRAMOLINE stuff  :-)

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