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From: louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: amiga placement
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Date: 29 Feb 88 16:20:29 GMT
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In article <708@nuchat.UUCP> peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>I wouldn't stick the floppies on their sides if you're going to use them much,
>but if you do mainly hard-disk stuff it should be OK.

I've had my external floppy on its side ever since I upgraded from an A1000
to an A2000 in October.  It has had *heavy* use, and I have experience no
problems at all.  I've had this external disk drive on my A1000 since 
the introduction of the A1000 many moons ago.  And all I have is two floppies,
no hard disk yet.  (Well, I did try to use a C Ltd drive for a while, but
don't get me started on that...)

In fact, I don't seem to have any problems with disks getting trashed, bad
spots forming, AmigaDOS going off the deep end or anything.  I even have a
68010 in my A2000.  How do I do it?  I don't run broken software.  Or, when
I do run broken software, I don't blame the operating system in the computer.
I don't use no-name disks, but DSDD Sony and 3M.

You'd think from reading this newsgroup that the disk hardware is flaky;  it
just ain't so.


Louis A. Mamakos  WA3YMH    Internet: louie@TRANTOR.UMD.EDU
University of Maryland, Computer Science Center - Systems Programming