UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) (11/25/89)
Apparently my 2 year old has abused my 1000's internal drive with a screwdriver, or by inserting upside down disks, too often. Now, the machine doesn't seem able to read the kickstart. It recognizes it OK, because if I put in a non kickstart, it notices right away, but with a kickstart, it whirls a few seconds before the KICKSTART screen reappears. In other words, the drive is sick. (The kickstart disks work on other machines.) Is there any way I can fix this myself? To give you some idea, so far I haven't been able to get the cover off. I removed the five screws in the bottom, hoping the top woul lift off, but that wasn't enough and I am inexpert enough to wish to avoid ripping the box apart by accident. Any advice? There is one authorized Commodore repair place in town. What should I expect from them. Will they just replace the drive, or will they try to diagnose and fix it? Would anyone like to recommend a service center that works by mail? Thanks in advance. lee
mlelstv@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Michael van Elst ) (11/28/89)
UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes: >Apparently my 2 year old has abused my 1000's internal drive with a >screwdriver, or by inserting upside down disks, too often. Now, the machine >doesn't seem able to read the kickstart. It recognizes it OK, because if I put > in a non kickstart, it notices right away, but with a kickstart, it whirls >a few seconds before the KICKSTART screen reappears. Since your Amiga recognizes the KICKSTART disk (other symptoms as non-kick disk) it should read the first track/ first side successfully. I would look at the head select signal, the step signal or the step direction signal. All these signals are driven by one of the CIA devices. Might be a defect there. Try to exchange them, if the behaviour differs from now, then ... you've got the defect. Michael van Elst E-mail: UUCP: ...uunet!unido!fauern!immd4!mlelstv
trudel@revenge.rutgers.edu (Jonathan D.) (11/30/89)
In article <89328.152257UH2@PSUVM.BITNET> UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes: > In other words, the drive is sick. (The kickstart disks work on other > machines.) Have you tried the reverse - trying another kickstart disk in the drive? Perhaps the alignment on the original kickstart was off enough that it doesn't read anymore (meaning that the drive has gone out of alignment). Try copying the kickstart onto another floppy and try it.
UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) (12/01/89)
This thread started off by me is now a moot point. The machine is
in the shop. One of the read/write heads was on a bent arm, presumably
caused by my two-year old and his software.
Thanks for the advice and support.
leetrudel%revenge.rutgers.edu@cunyvm.cuny.edu (12/06/89)
In article <89328.152257UH2@PSUVM.BITNET> UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes: > In other words, the drive is sick. (The kickstart disks work on other > machines.) Have you tried the reverse - trying another kickstart disk in the drive? Perhaps the alignment on the original kickstart was off enough that it doesn't read anymore (meaning that the drive has gone out of alignment). Try copying the kickstart onto another floppy and try it.