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From: csan@its63b.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Crash and Burn!!!
Message-ID: <380@its63b.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 27-Apr-87 08:36:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: its63b.380
Posted: Mon Apr 27 08:36:42 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 30-Apr-87 01:53:52 EDT
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Reply-To: csan@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Andie)
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In article <534@maccs.UUCP> cs3c3cg@maccs.UUCP (Ray ) writes:
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>
>One day it was working fine, and all of a sudden, it refuses
>read about half of my disks!!!!
>Stranger still, I take them over to a friends ST and they work
>fine!!!!
>
>Does anyone out there have any ideas for the sudden strange behaviour
>of my machine???  I find this very strange for only a 4 month old
>computer, and in my opinion does not reflect very well on Atari's
>quality control.


Have you cleaned your disk heads ? I found this on my first computer ...
If I didnt clean the heads regularily, I could not get the drive to read
anything from the disks.

(Sorry for posting to the net .... any attempts to post mail failed.)

Andie Ness . Department of Computer Science 
              EDINBURGH University.

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