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From: jmpiazza@sunybcs.uucp (Joseph M. Piazza)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A1000 Disk Drive Trouble
Message-ID: <11863@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jun 88 19:43:26 GMT
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In article <3985@cbmvax.UUCP> steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats) writes:
>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.

	I've experiences such a problem and similar, though less violent,
solution.  I've had a few disks that seem to have a misalignment of the
floppy part of the floppy as if it didn't want to spin.  Jockying this
floppette about freed it and allowed it to work with no other problems.
This happened on a Mac SE as well as me Amiga.

Flip side,

	joe piazza

--- Cogito ergo equus sum.

CS Dept. SUNY at Buffalo 14260

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