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From: acs@amdahl.UUCP (Tony Sumrall)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: disk drive step rate, noise
Message-ID: <3874@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Oct-86 15:08:07 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  6 15:08:07 1986
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In article <150@ingr.UUCP> streeter@ingr.UUCP writes:

>  I purchased my Amiga in November 85, at the same time a friend
> purchased his.  I was immediately disturbed by the noise the
> diskette drives make while moving the heads.  ...
> ...                   The new drive did not make the noise.  It also
> had a different feel to it when inserting and ejecting the
> diskettes.  He has bought several Amigas since then (his company
> uses them), and all the drives, internal and external, are quiet. ...
>  If anyone else has had their machine as long as I have had mine, I
> would like to know if they have the same drive noise problems.
My drives are considerably noisier than the drives on my friends machines
and, I agree, they have a different insert-eject feel to them.  My wife
thinks that my drives are so noisy that she's sentenced us both to a back
room!  I got my machine in mid-December.
> 
> Guy Streeter
> ...akgua!ingr!streeter


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Tony Sumrall                    ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,seismo,sun}!amdahl!acs

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