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From: me128-aw@kepler.Berkeley.EDU (me128 student)
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Subject: Re: Problem with Drive?
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Date: 19 Jan 89 03:31:25 GMT
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In article <1452@leah.Albany.Edu> jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (Julius A Cisek) writes:
>
>I  recently  got  an  external  drive  for my Amiga (the A1010) but some
>software (Epyx Street-Sports Basketball and the PD game  Grav  Tech  are
>two examples) refuses to run when the drive is hooked in! Other software
>runs fine, and the drive seems to work  great.  Could  it  be  a  memory
>problem?  As  of  now  I  still  don't have a meg (I ordered it with the
>computer and the drive, but  got  put  on  backorder;  grrrr....)...  It
>worries  me  a little, especially since I just got this thing and I love
>it!
>-- 

Sorry, the drive takes up some memory for buffers and system shtuff.
Game software is sometimes written to use all 512k.  I would just wait for
the memory expansion.  If you can't, you can wire a little switch to 
disable the drive (i don't know which pin offhand), but it shouldn't be
difficult.

-Vince Lee