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From: bilbo@pnet02.cts.com (Bill Daggett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A1000 Disk Drive Trouble
Message-ID: <4413@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 11 Jun 88 01:40:12 GMT
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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.
>
>	Steve
>
>PS.  I accept no responsibility for damaged wallpaper or pictures :-)

Steve, I almost believe you, except I haven't thrown the disk yet.  :-)
I threw one once and broke it thus I never tried that again and never had a
chance to realize the fix.

I am repeating my original message to see if ANYONE else has anything to add
to this?  What exactly has happened inside the disk to cause this and why
would throwing the disk against a wall (a very hard rap) fix it?

Excuse me, I've got a disk to throw.

Bill

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