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From: billk@crash.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Applications checklist/disk drive woes
Message-ID: <847@crash.CTS.COM>
Date: Fri, 27-Feb-87 02:48:41 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 27 02:48:41 1987
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mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Mike Portuesi) wrote about problems with getting his
drive to read Kickstart when he put it in after the picture comes up and asks
for the disk.  He then mentions that his Amiga is "turned on its side" next to
his desk.

I have a friend... (really?)... ahem!  I have a friend who tried tipping his
Amiga sideways to save DESK (not disk!) space and began having trouble with
the internal drive.  His was far worse: the disk would read fine, but whenever
it wrote, it would trash the disk.  When he cald me up and told me about this,
I told him to put his Amiga back down on the desk normally.  The problem
disappeared (or so we thought, because it began to seem to be writing
correctly again) but not entirely.  It seems that his drive became
mis-adjusted from having it tipped sideways.  When righted it was still ever
so slightly out of alignment that it would slowly, slowly trash all the disks
that it wrote to.

My advice would be to NOT "turn your Amiga on its side"!!!  

My question, however, is this: What are these, cheap drives?  The 3.5" drives
used in portable computers can be tipped and turned every which way without
any problems.  I had thought my froend's drive to be a fluke but now I doubt
it... How come we got cheap drives???? :-(

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Bill Kelly      {sdcsvax, akgua, hplabs!hp-sdd}!crash!pnet01!billk

Passenger to flight attendant:  What kind of plane is this?
Flight attendant to passenger:  A DC10, sir.
Passenger                    :  A DEE CEE ONE ZERO?
Flight attendant             :  Uh... yes, sir.
Passenger                    :  What's that in decimal?

Ha ha, that was supposed to be a joke...!

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