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From: eric@hippo.UUCP (Eric Bergan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Ext. Drive on the Fritz
Message-ID: <117@hippo.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 3-May-87 13:52:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: hippo.117
Posted: Sun May  3 13:52:11 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 3-May-87 20:14:10 EDT
Organization: HEALTHCARE 2000
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	Last night, my external drive decided to start acting up. It
had been working without incident the night before, but now (with nothing
apparently changing), it is exhibiting some very bizarre and anti-social
behaviour. It seems to still read disks correctly. But if it tries to
write to a disk, it trashes it (seems to be messing up track 40, according
to disksalv and diskdoctor). If you try and format a new disk in it,
it complains that the disk is write protected (even though it is not).

	Has anyone else experienced problems like this? Is it something
a semi-hardware type can fix, or will it need to go somewhere for
servicing? (If the latter, are there any recommendations for Bay area
shops?) I assume that it is the drive itself, and not the logic in
the Amiga, or is it? The drive and Amiga are out of warrenty, of course.

	Any guesses on what caused the problem? It seems to have just
developed for no apparent reason. But I don't recall having heard
about a lot of other people having problems with their external drives.

	Thanks for any suggestions or recommendations.

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					eric
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