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From: miracle@sctc.com (Barry Miracle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A3000 sees too many floppies
Summary: My new A3000 sees drives df0: -df3: though I only have df0:
Keywords: A3000 hardware floppies
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.134423.27843@sctc.com>
Date: 12 Jun 91 13:44:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: sctc.1991Jun12.134423.27843
Organization: SCTC
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I got my brand new A3000 set it up and booted it, and every thing
looked OK, but it showed four floppy drives.  I thought this was
peculiar because I only have one drive.  The names for the disks in
the non-existant drives were garbage values.

I called my loccal service center and he said that he though it was a
jumper J351, which should be off.  So I opened my A3000 up and
switched the jumper.  Now it shows four floppies, but doesn't
recognize any disks.  So I am switching it back, but now I called my
service center and he says that I need a new motherboard.  I do not
want to be separated from my new computer that long, and he is an hour
away.  Does anyone know what is wrong and do I really need another
mother board?

Barry Miracle
miracle@sctc.com