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From: KRSEAR01@ULKYVX.BITNET (Kendall 'Opusii' Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AIR drive failures seem to be common.
Message-ID: <8906051538.AA11711@jade.berkeley.edu>
Date: 5 Jun 89 14:16:00 GMT
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>>     Since I posted my message a little while ago about having problems with
>>my external drive (DF1:), an AIRdrive, I've had several letters from other
>>people who also have AIRdrives and have had continual problems with
>>read/write errors cropping up at random. Here's the kind of thing I've been
>>having happen:
[...]
>                            I've had my AIR drive for a month now and I can't
> complain, it's quiet and I have had no errors that surprised me
>
I have had my AIRdrive for over a year now with no problems.  In fact, when
my internal drive on my 500 died, I pulled the drive mechanism out of the
AIRdrive and installed it in my 500 until I found a replacement drive for the
500.  I personally think that the AIRdrive is a decent drive, but the only
thing AIR did was print a SMALL circuit board and install a (in my case) NEC
mechanism.  The circuit board DOES look a little cheesy, but it works.

Opusii

   Kendall "Opusii" Sears
   KRSEAR01@ULKYVX.bitnet
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   K.SEARS                            (GEnie)
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