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From: haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: drive
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Date: 18 Oct 88 08:56:20 GMT
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stuff@crash.cts.com (David Yip) writes:
>I've had an amiga 500 for 11 weeks now.  The last 7 of which it's been in
>the shop for drive problems.  Ever week or so, it comes back supposedly
>fixed.  Ever week or so, I take it back to get it fixed.  Now the dealer
>I bought it from tells me I need a new drive, but they won't cover it
>under the warranty.  No way am I going to buy another garbage drive from
>Commodore for $170.00.  Has anyone replaced their internal drive with a
>generic 3 1/4 inch drive from say Toshiba or Sony?  Or is there something
>special about the drive Commodore uses?
>

        Why won't the dealer cover it?  Did you buy it from the local dealer?
Make sure to get receipts of the work already done from the dealer, and if
you have any problems try contacting Commodore.  Assuming you bought a new
machine which you had for only 4 weeks before having problems with the drive,
it seems to me it should be fixed under warrenty, especially here in
California.

        Like I said, try contacting Commodore.  It's not good for the Amiga's
rep to have this kind of thing happen.


                                                        Wade.

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