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From: MARCUS@STOAT.PCL.AC.UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: re: external drive problems
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Date: 10 May 89 23:55:54 GMT
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>From: ole@idt.unit.no
>Message-Id: <8905050720.AA19209@fljod.idt.unit.no>
>To: MARCUS@uk.ac.pcl.stoat
>Subject: Disk drive problem

>The same thing happened to my son's A500. This happened when he had
>connected his new printer. It turned out that when unplugging the
>printer the disk drive worked ok again! We were told that this was
>a (well) known problem on some 500's!

>Ole Solberg
>Div. of Computer Science and Telematics
>Norwegian Institute of Technology
>Trondheim, Norway

...and I'd just re-soldered my printer lead...but does anyone know *why* this
is happening? Could it be the ground pins? I only connected the first of
the bunch when I re-soldered my lead (previously all were connected).

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