Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:27246 comp.sys.amiga.tech:2997 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!husc6!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!topaz.rutgers.edu!armhold From: armhold@topaz.rutgers.edu (George Armhold) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Disk drive gronks Message-ID: Date: 2 Jan 89 21:31:13 GMT Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 26 Does anyone know why sometimes when booting up, the system seems to have some kind of problem with the disk drive? What I mean is when loading Workbench, the drive knocks 3 or 4 times for every time that it should knock only once. This causes it to take about 4-5 times longer to boot up. Then disk activity is usually screwed up for the entire session- it's especially evident when opening disks from the Workbench ("gronk gronk gronk gronk etc..." instead of "gronk gronk - window's open"). At first I thought this was due my not using disk labels that cover the seam on the top of the disk (some disks seem to open a little bit at the top seam, the labels hold it closed), but now sometimes disks WITH labels have this problem. This problem only happens every once in a while- sometimes rebooting kills the problem, sometimes not. I thought I had licked the problem until I tried using "Better Dead than Alien" (QuickNibble won't copy it so I have to use my original:-( ) This original came with one of those labels that only covers the front of the disk- it doesn't cover the seam. I was too angry to play the game after waiting forever to load it (gronk gronk gronk etc...) so I loaded up workbench- and it too had the problem(my workbench DOES have a good label on it.) Only after 3 reboots did it stop. If it's really the label thats causing the problem, can anybody tell me why? Has anyone else had this problem??? -GEA PS: Better Dead than Alien has always worked fine for me until today.