Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!wn0e+ From: wn0e+@andrew.cmu.edu (William Nichols) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re:disk drive problems Message-ID: Date: 4 May 89 15:19:53 GMT Organization: Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 24 In message <14503@louie.udel.EDU> , new@udel.EDU (Darren New) writes >>In article <5000@charon.unm.edu> hansb@ariel.unm.edu (The Amiga Programmer) writes: >>I have owned the Commodore Amiga 3 1/2 disk drive since 6-86 without >>any problems whatsoever. Recently, I have been getting read-write >>errors even on Sonys' disks.... >I started getting the same problems at the beginning of last summer. >After several week of really being POed when my sources disk lost >the root directory, I came to the realization that the disks were >failing when the room got too warm. Since you are in NM (I'm >in DE), I assume you are starting to get quite warm dowm there. >Try turning up the air conditioning. -- Darren I too had some problems when my drive overheated., some random errors, inability to format, hard errors on good disks, etc. First suggestion, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE GOOD AIR CIRCULATION. I have one of those computer desks where it is easy to cut off air flow with shelves. My problems went away completely when I moved a shelf up 4 inches, and let the machine cool down. Second suggestion, use a disk drive cleaner every few weeks or so. I once could not even kickstart my a1000 untill I cleaned the drives. Bill Nichols wn0e@andrew.cmu.edu