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From: rling@uw-june (Robert Ling)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Mysterious Errors on ST
Message-ID: <364@uw-june>
Date: Sat, 12-Oct-85 02:35:41 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 12 02:35:41 1985
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A week or two ago, someone posted an article describing errors during
start-up of the ST.  I had the same problems when I first got my ST; a
row of little bugs would appear across the middle of the screen and
everything stopped.  One POSSIBLE explanation for this is that the disk
is too close to the video monitor.

In an article re-posted to the net concerning the use of 5.25" floppies on
the ST, the author mentioned that the ST video monitor puts out unusally
high magnetic fields.  This might affect the read/write heads on the drive.

I had my floppy drive right next to the monitor when I got these errors
and after I moved the drive a foot or so away from the monitor I have
not had any more problems.

- Robert Ling  <rling@uw-june.arpa>