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From: hensley@frith.egr.msu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: A500 floppy troubles
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Date: 15 Feb 90 15:45:28 GMT
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I just bought my 500 a couple of weeks ago.  Suddenly it started giving me 
errors whenever I formatted a disk, or if a disk did format correctly, it 
would later develop read/write errors.  At first I thought it was the cheap
disks I'd bought, but some good ones ended up the same.

So I took it back to my dealer, who diagnosed the problem as the Fatter Agnus.
The chubchip was replaced, and apparently it corrected the format problem, but
now whenever I attempt a diskcopy, the destination disk gets a verification
error.

It happens in both drives (both directions), so it pretty much has to be an 
internal glitch.  How likely is it that two Agnuses in a row were bad?  What 
else is a likely culprit?  Paula? I remember another tale in c.s.a. about a 500
developing drive errors -- was that the one that had a poorly seated Agnus?

Somebody help me afore I huck this contraption against the wall...

John