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From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (David P. Schaumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A500 floppy troubles
Summary: Me too... :(
Message-ID: <118@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 3 Mar 90 22:50:30 GMT
References: <6468@cps3xx.UUCP>
Distribution: usa
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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In article <6468@cps3xx.UUCP>, hensley@frith.egr.msu.edu writes:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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

I have had a similar experience, but I bought my A500 on 5/1/89.  Were they
shipping the fatter Agnus back then?  Could the older Agnus cause the same
problem?

Also: if I have a disk with a bone fide read/write error, will format complain?

				Thanx, Dave.

usenet: dave@cs.arizona.edu
In reality: Dave Schaumann at U of A, Tucson, AZ