Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!steveb
From: steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A1000 Disk Drive Trouble
Message-ID: <3985@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 88 21:33:36 GMT
References: <4388@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <4388@gryphon.CTS.COM> bilbo@pnet02.cts.com (Bill Daggett) writes:
>Over the last 1.5 years I have had a rare internal drive problem.
>All of a sudden a disk that has worked FINE when put into the internal drive
>(df0:) will make a "tick-like" sound at the rate of the disk speed (which I
>think is 300 rpm or so) and fail to WORK at all.  Info gives "Unreadable disk"
>and trying Dir gives the requester "Not a DOS disk" or some such.
>
>Thanks in advance for any knowledge you can throw to me about this.
>
This is not a flippant answer!  Believe it or not, I have found the giving
the offending disk a good solid heft in the direction of the nearest wall
generally makes the problem go away.  I did it out of frustration one day
and the disk worked when I tried it again.  This has since happened on three
other occasions and the "wall trick" fixed things up.

	Steve

PS.  I accept no responsibility for damaged wallpaper or pictures :-)