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From: vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Tandy(ack!) drive on Amy?
Summary: Is the drive in the subsystem a Toshiba?
Keywords: external amiga drive
Message-ID: <548@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 28 May 88 17:51:35 GMT
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Organization: Ohio State Math-Stats Dept
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I am not sure, but the drive in the Pacific peripherals subsystem is a
Toshiba. If that is true, check out the drive carefully. I get soft
errors if the drive head has to move several tracks at once. For example
I get a soft error on long files written on a disk 80% full; or after
formatting, when the heads move from track 79 to track 0. But given
a second (my reaction time to clicking on the requester), every thing
goes smoothly. 
This is not a problem with the power supply as the subsystem drive is
powered externally and I have never had this problem with the internal
drive.