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From: tlm@pur-phy (Timothy Lee Meisenheimer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Do I have a lemon?
Message-ID: <1021@pur-phy>
Date: 15 Mar 88 18:02:33 GMT
Reply-To: tlm@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Timothy Lee Meisenheimer)
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN
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[ This is for you wicked lind eater. ]

This is to see if anyone has a suggestion or a similar experience:

Machine: Amiga 2000 still under warrenty.

	I'm having problems with my floppies getting corrupted while
I'm doing file transfers - say using VT100 (kermit) and DNET (which
is getting stable and usefull even at 1200 baud). I've had the same
problem transfering files from ramdisk to df0: but it seems to hit me
more when I'm down loading. Needless to say it is very disconcerting
knowing I could lose my floppy at any moment! (About once a day!) So....,
I had the drive checked out (under warrenty) and it had alignment
problems that couldn't be fixed with the scope so it got replaced :-).
But noooooooo! I get about 50k transfered an BAMMMMMmmm the disk
does the usual horrible grind, grind, brrraaat with a system request
about a read/write error and I'm stuck again!!!! I started checking the
disks (had three in a row and it doesn't matter who made them) with
sectorama (directory check) and found block x00370 was where
it always started the corruption. Since it's independent of program,
and floppy drive, do I have a flakey Denise (or whatever the name is)
on my mother board? Of course the fan has just started to sound like
a Mach truck on a cold winter morning when I first turn on the machine -
Aarrrrrrgggghhhhhhh!!!!! It goes away in about 10 minutes but the
bearing are probably going. The shop is going to call CBM about it
but I'd still appreciate any insights from the net. The frustration
level is starting to rise to very warm, and I'm getting tired of the
hassle and would like to get some real work done!


- On another frustrating note:

I just recieved Manx 3.6 etc and like that SDB! But when I compile
I keep getting system requests for the boot disk - I don't boot up
on a compiler disk, I have most everything in memory - I can
click cancel and it goes on its merry way. I've got the environment
stuff 'set' correctly, and have reassigned C:,S:,T: and SYS: etc.
In fact I reeassign everything (FONTS: etc.) and more and still
get those requests!!! Who and what is it (make, cc, as, ln) looking for!!
I have noticed that if you compile with +ff of +fi the compiler needs
to suck in the floating point libraries (why??????) if they haven't
already been brought in but this is a different issue. I've just got
the latest version of sc (spreadsheet) running and that is how I
came about all this.

-Sorry to take up so much bandwidth.
-Thanks in advance.

	tlm@newton.physics.purdue.edu