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From: malibo@arizona.edu (Rob McConeghy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A500 drives
Message-ID: <2966@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: Sun, 22-Nov-87 22:46:44 EST
Article-I.D.: megaron.2966
Posted: Sun Nov 22 22:46:44 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 25-Nov-87 06:32:12 EST
References: <135@wybbs.COM>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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Summary: no problems with 500

In article <135@wybbs.COM>, meyers@wybbs.COM (John Meyers) writes:
> About one week after my warantee expired on my A500, the drive would begin
> to not be able to read the write (dis)enable notch. I would get prompts to
> ENABLE disks that already were. (And I still am.) Worse yet, my drive did
> the "1541{ Crunch" when I pulled out a disk. (and no, the drive was not 
> reading it at the time)
> 
> Do I have the world's worst 500, or are these problems bound to happen to ALL
> 500s?
a
I have had no problems with my 500 at all and I got one of the first
ones the local dealer got in.