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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: noKLICKstart
Message-ID: <3905@well.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 6-Sep-87 04:55:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.3905
Posted: Sun Sep  6 04:55:53 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Sep-87 21:03:32 EDT
References: <3897@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Organization: Boing Boom Tschak
Lines: 19
Keywords: El Cheapo Drives
Summary: And now, Chapter 17, Volume 77 of "You Can't Win."

In article <3897@well.UUCP> sjm@well.UUCP (Stephen Moehle) writes:
>      I applied this patch to a KickStart disk, turned off the computer
>and brought it back up.  Uh, well, all that happened was that my drives
>simply made different noises when there was no disk present.  [ ... ]

	Ten bucks says your drive doesn't observe track 0 detect.

	Apple pulled this stunt years ago.  "Lets save a few cents on the
drive," they said.  "Let's leave out the track 0 detect switch," they said.
"We'll just ram the head against the physical stop 39 times," they said.
"It can't possibly do any harm; just give the user indigestion."

	Sigh.

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