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From: jesup@pawl18.pawl.rpi.edu (Randell E. Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Do I have a lemon?
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Date: 17 Mar 88 08:10:05 GMT
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In article <1021@pur-phy> tlm@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Timothy Lee Meisenheimer) writes:
>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,

	Actually, I think it might matter who makes them.  My brother
has an amiga, and is a naive user.  He kept getting read errors on his
WordPerfect disk (copied from master), even after he re-diskcopied it.
So he tried it on another disk, same problem.  And a third, as well.
It turned out that 5 out of the 10 disks he bought were bad, and if you
did a format on them, they didn't pass.  Try formatting some of these
disk you have problems with.
	Next question: do you run any programs all the time, like maybe an
old copy of the shell?  Anything that does a Delay(0) (like an old copy
of the dillon shell) will cause random trashed of the disk, usually track
40.  0x0370 is 880 decimal, or track 40 sector 0 (what normally gets hit
by Delay(0)).
	Try a different download program, don't run ANY background stuff,
and I'll bet it stops.  Not 100% sure, but it is a good bet.


>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

	My fan is like that too, but it was like that from the beginning.
Since I bought it mailorder, I haven't bothered doing anything about it yet.
It does sound like rocks in the fan for 10 min or so.

>	tlm@newton.physics.purdue.edu

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