GDFAMBROUGH%UALR.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (Gare) (10/27/89)
For all of you Amiga 1000 owners...
A friend of mine has an Amiga 1000 and something strange has
happened. Neither the external nor internal drive will
read a disk. They were both working fine and all of the sudden,
during a computing session, both drives started giving read/
write errors. A warm boot did not change things. Turning the
computer off only resulted in not being able to boot up at
all...with ANY version of Kickstart. The computer just acts as
though you inserted a disk other than Kickstart. He thinks
maybe one or both of the controller chips have gone berserk.
Any ideas?????
Gary
GDFAMBROUGH@UALR
GDFAMBRO@UALR
GDFAMBRO@UALR.BITNETGDFAMBROUGH%UALR.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (Gare) (10/27/89)
For all you Amiga 1000 owners...and others...
A friend of mine is having problems with his disk drives.
He has an Amiga 1000 and was doing some computing when
all the sudden both his internal and external drives
started giving read/write errors. He did a warm boot
from RAD: to see if this would solve the problem and
nothing doing. So, as a result he turned the computer off
and back on. When asked to insert Kickstart he did so...
but all he got was a drive access (like it recognized that
he put a disk in) but no bootup. He did this with all
his Kickstart versions and received the same result.
He thinks that maybe one or both of his Disk Controller
chips have gone berserk. Any ideas??
Gary
GDFAMBROUGH@UALR
GDFAMBRO@UALR
GDFAMBRO@UALR.BITNETrps2@conexch.UUCP (Richard Stevens) (10/31/89)
Yes, it's entirely possible you lost a chip. The chips are 8520s, and there are two of them. One is used primarily for the disks, and one for the serial port. They're not easy to replace in an A1000, due to the shielding and such on the board. And they're soldered in, if I recall correctly. Best bet....take it to an authorized service center. -- | "A day without sunshine is like...night!" | | [O O] Rick Stevens | | ? ..uunet!perigrine!ccicpg!conexch!rps2 | | V 75006,1355 (CIS) -or- 75006.1355@compuserve.com |
monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine) (11/04/89)
In article <39913@conexch.UUCP> rps2@conexch.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes: > >Yes, it's entirely possible you lost a chip. The chips are 8520s, and >there are two of them. One is used primarily for the disks, and one for the >serial port. They're not easy to replace in an A1000, due to the shielding >and such on the board. And they're soldered in, if I recall correctly. ^^^^^^^^^^^^ look first, mine and all 4 A1000's I've been in are socketed. Besides swapping them is the first thing to do to check if the problem changes to the other functions. Monty Saine >Best bet....take it to an authorized service center. > >