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From: iwood@uvicctr.UVic.CA.UUCP (Ian Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: A500 Floppy Drive Weirdness
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Date: 9 Jan 90 02:46:01 GMT
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There is a problem with the DISKCOPY program on a whole whack of Workbench 1.3
disks that Commodore put out around Christmas.  As well as the write errors,
the bad diskcopy will sometimes guru.  Check the size of the DISKCOPY file.
If the file is 17380 bytes and the version is 1.3.1, it is the hooped version.
The guru problem only seems to come up from Workbench, not CLI.

A lot of the dealers around here didn't know about the problem.  The guys at
Moebius Computer Systems in Victoria found it and phoned Commodore, who didn't
know (I think).  But then Moebius is a real Amiga store, run by a bunch of
Amiga hackers who got into the retail business because they had a calling to
spread the word.....

Flame Retardent :  I don't work for Moebius or get consideration for my 
                   words here, etc, etc.



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