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From: fisher@dvinci.DEC
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Disk power
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Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 17:05:50 EST
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Atari warns that the diskette should always be removed when powering the
1050 up and down.  How important is this?  Will it hurt the DRIVE if I
am willing to loose a diskette once in a while?  (The fewer steps the kids
have to perform the better.)  How about leaving the 1050 powered on all the
time?  Any problem?

And finally (this is disk-related, so I'll put it in the same note):  The
DOS-3 manual says that a specially formatted blank disk comes with the drive
to copy the master diskette onto.  The formatting is alleged to allow the
drive to be faster than the formatting that the drive writes.  Open the
drive box.  No blank diskette.  Call store.  None of them have a blank.
What gives?  Did they upgrade the drive formatting firmware, but not the
DOS manual?

Thanks for the info!

Burns


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