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From: valentin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Valentin Pepelea)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: A500 Floppy Drive Weirdness
Keywords: hardware broken any guesses
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Date: 6 Jan 90 03:07:45 GMT
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Reply-To: valentin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Valentin Pepelea)
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In article <3512@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> grh@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (george.r.heuer) writes:
>
>Here's a challenge for you hardware guru's out there...
>
>...It seems that he can read disks OK but in the course
>of duplicating disks or trying to read disks that he succesfully wrote,
>he continues to get read/write errors.  I thought his internal drive might
>be bad, so I loaned him my 1010 to see what happened, and he had exactly
>the same problems with my good 1010.

He has faulty disks. Bring some of your faithful disks which you have had no
trouble using during the last year and see how they fare. You might also try
using his troublesome disk on your machine to make sure it is at fault.

Valentin
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