chanst@atrium.UUCP (Steve T Chan) (01/11/88)
I bought an A2010 internal drive about 2 weeks ago, this one looks different than the internal drive that I have, anyway, I installed it according to the instructions and everything works fine.. except, there is this annoying problem, the LED on the drive will blink once a while for no reasons, no disk access, I guess you call it blip, it comes on and goes off quickly once a while, I thought that I connected it wrong, so I opened the case, got out the instructions and checked the connections again, everything looked right, I don't know what the problem is, is it the drive? the driver controller? or whatever?? because my other drive works fine.. Steve Chan, UUCP: gatech!petro!atrium!chanst
daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) (01/19/88)
in article <136@atrium.UUCP>, chanst@atrium.UUCP (Steve T Chan) says: > Keywords: A2000,A2000 Drives,Internal Drive > > I bought an A2010 internal drive about 2 weeks ago, this one looks different > than the internal drive that I have, anyway, I installed it according to > the instructions and everything works fine.. except, there is this annoying > problem, the LED on the drive will blink once a while for no reasons, no > disk access, I guess you call it blip, it comes on and goes off quickly > once a while, I thought that I connected it wrong, so I opened the case, > got out the instructions and checked the connections again, everything looked > right, I don't know what the problem is, is it the drive? the driver controller? > or whatever?? because my other drive works fine.. > Steve Chan, UUCP: gatech!petro!atrium!chanst That's probably OK. I'm assuming you're familiar with normal Amiga oddities like the case when a drive may be accessed, by driver or background programs, at times that don't seem to be related to any of you're software activity. If I'm not sure if you'd ever see this with the motor being off, but the LED and motor have independent control, so it's possibly a side effect of something software is doing. I only have a single floppy on my A2000, and it's one of the older floppies with LED light nearly too dim to see, so I'm not sure if that's something I'd normally see or not. Also, it is possible for the DF1: motor control to occasionally make the DF0: motor spin, but that's normal; an aspect of the way the standard (eg. IBM) interface floppies have to be hooked up to work in an Amiga. As long as the floppy is working OK, I'd expect that you're not seeing a problem. Dave Haynie "The B2000 Guy" Commodore-Amiga "The Crew That Never Rests" {ihnp4|uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: D-DAVE H BIX: hazy "I can't relax, 'cause I'm a Boinger!" -- Dave Haynie "The B2000 Guy" Commodore-Amiga "The Crew That Never Rests" {ihnp4|uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: D-DAVE H BIX: hazy "I can't relax, 'cause I'm a Boinger!"