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From: jerem@tekgvs.TEK.COM (Jere Marrs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga drive noise
Message-ID: <2250@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
Date: Thu, 30-Apr-87 16:49:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekgvs.2250
Posted: Thu Apr 30 16:49:14 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 2-May-87 16:57:00 EDT
References: <3501@gitpyr.gatech.EDU> <4688@utcsri.UUCP>
Reply-To: jerem@tekgvs.UUCP (Jere Marrs)
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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Keywords: noise,drives,disk brands

In article <4688@utcsri.UUCP> gbs@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Gideon Sheps) writes:
>For comparison: I borrowed a disk  from someone this afternoon
>to bring home some software and it sounds terrible - like the disk is loose
>inside the casing, I get a hiss-like noise that makes me think the disk is
>being sandpapered in the drive. The guy I borrowed it from had a couple
>of boxes of them - they had no brand name  ( just a made in USA stamp )
>were black and were cheap (he said).

	That is most interesting. I just received two disks from Aegis
Development (SONIX, a wonderful program!) and I placed them in my external
drive. They would not `validate' and `info' said "unreadable disk." Hmm.

	I tried the other disk and the same thing happened. The disks
were black and had those same strange markings: MADE IN USA.

	Oddly, I placed them in the internal drive, and they validated
just fine. I desparately copied them onto generic disks I bought at
Egghead Software (MADE IN JAPAN). Now _every_ disk in my collection
(>100) will validate in df1: on my machine except these from Aegis.

	It would be nice for MADE IN USA to give me a warm feeling,
but, alas.

	I'm having great fun with SONIX.

Jere M. Marrs
Tektronix, Inc.
Beaverton, Oregon
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