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From: bishop@skat.usc.edu (Brian Bishop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Second Floppy Drive
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Date: 26 Feb 88 04:36:35 GMT
References: Just me!
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Keywords: disk drive,write protect
Summary: How do you fix a missing write-protect thingie?
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 The other day a disk got stuck in my drive. When I tried to remove it (perhaps
a bit too forcefully) a small piece flew out. It's a black piece of plastic
(graphite-like) with a spring and a cap:

     |       <- Plastic
   -----    <- Metal Cap
     |~
    ~|   
     |~<- Spring winding around plastic

  I have found the hole it fits in (right where the write protect tab is when
the disk is in the drive), but cannot make it reliably recognize writable
disks. Without the piece of plastic, all disks are write-protected.
  This is very annoying, since it is my second drive. Looking through the
RKM, I see a pin on the interface labelled WPRO (14 - Asserted by selected,
write-protected disk). 

  SO.......can I snip this pin, thereby making all disks writable? I would
rather have that than what I have now. 


brian bishop

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