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From: spencer@usc-oberon.UUCP (Randy Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: using the 5 1/4" drive with the new v1.2
Message-ID: <508@usc-oberon.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 5-Jul-86 04:42:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: usc-ober.508
Posted: Sat Jul  5 04:42:19 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Jul-86 01:24:16 EDT
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General question for anyone on the net who uses the 5 1/4" drive with the
Amiga as a data drive.  Here is the question:

Any problems?

I was originally having problems rarely.  Twice the disks had crashed and
needed to be reformatted.  Sometimes it wouldn't reformat, not being able
to verify the highest tracks (up near 39).  I though that it might be pos-
sible that the drive was overheating, but that turned out not to be the 
case.  It just got worse and worse.  I finally had to change the devs:
file called "mountlist"  It turned out that if I set it to only go to 39
columns it was not so bad.  But that is now.  What is going to happen in
the next few weeks?  I only get a 90 day warrenty, I can't tell if it is
the disk or the software.  I don't seem to have this problem with IBM
mode, but then it don't try to put 440K on that disk.

Please, please, please... someone who knows... should I take the drive
back?  Is this supposed to happen this way?

As always, thanks, good to have this forum around.
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