hakimian@cs2.cs.wsu.edu (05/02/90)
This is a plea to anybody out there who knows anything about Commodore floppies. I would especially like to hear from Commodore. Help!!!! The system: Amiga 2000 (not sure which rev), a2090a controller, micron 2 meg board, one Commodore floppy drive (df0:), one progressive Peripherals floppy drive (df1:). The problem: My Amiga 2000 floppy drives are not working right, they are about 75% reliable. If df0: is accessed df1: will also spin. If df1: is accessed df0: will also spin. If I unplug my floppies from the mother board, the system still detects them (ie. df0: and df1: show up as bad disks). What has been tried: I did an ohm test on the floppy cable, it checks out OK. There was a broken pin on the mother board where the floppies plug in. It has been replaced. The Commodore authorized service center near me replaced a 8520a-1 chip and then told me it was now working. Nothing had changed. The same place has now replaced the Paula still nothing has changed. The service center has had my computer for six weeks now and I think they finally understand what the symptoms are. They say they will try to call Commodore for help. I can't afford to wait for these incompetents to figure it out. I need to get my computer back. Please anyone especially anyone from Commodore give me a clue as to what the problem is and how to fix it. If I get one more call from the service man telling me he thinks its a problem with my startup-sequence I am going to scream! Please respond either email or the then I will be reading both! I don't seem to be able to post to comp.sys.amiga.hardware but I can read it. If someone would like I would appreciate having this forwarded there. P.S If this message comes out more that once, it is because we are having trouble connecting to the net. hakimian@cs2.cs.wsu.edu
hakimian@cs2.cs.wsu.edu (05/02/90)
This is a plea to anybody out there who knows anything about Commodore floppies. I would especially like to hear from Commodore. Help!!!! The system: Amiga 2000 (not sure which rev), a2090a controller, micron 2 meg board, one Commodore floppy drive (df0:), one progressive Peripherals floppy drive (df1:). The problem: My Amiga 2000 floppy drives are not working right, they are about 75% reliable. If df0: is accessed df1: will also spin. If df1: is accessed df0: will also spin. If I unplug my floppies from the mother board, the system still detects them (ie. df0: and df1: show up as bad disks). What has been tried: I did an ohm test on the floppy cable, it checks out OK. There was a broken pin on the mother board where the floppies plug in. It has been replaced. The Commodore authorized service center near me replaced a 8520a-1 chip and then told me it was now working. Nothing had changed. The same place has now replaced the Paula still nothing has changed. The service center has had my computer for six weeks now and I think they finally understand what the symptoms are. They say they will try to call Commodore for help. I can't afford to wait for these incompetents to figure it out. I need to get my computer back. Please anyone especially anyone from Commodore give me a clue as to what the problem is and how to fix it. If I get one more call from the service man telling me he thinks its a problem with my startup-sequence I am going to scream! Please respond either email or the then I will be reading both! I don't seem to be able to post to comp.sys.amiga.hardware but I can read it. If someone would like I would appreciate having this forwarded there. hakimian@cs2.cs.wsu.edu
hakimian@cs2.cs.wsu.edu (06/29/90)
YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I finally found out what the problem is with my floppy drive!! My floppy drives have been about 70% reliable. Recently they have been about 2% reliable :(. What I did was to run Amy until my drives started to fail badly. Then I started to freeze every chip until the problem stopped. When I dropped Agnus to sub 0 the drives started working again :-). So now I need to get a new Agnus and then everything should be ok again! hakimian@cs2.cs.wsu.edu