meyers@wybbs.UUCP (11/16/87)
About one week after my warantee expired on my A500, the drive would begin
to not be able to read the write (dis)enable notch. I would get prompts to
ENABLE disks that already were. (And I still am.) Worse yet, my drive did
the "1541{ Crunch" when I pulled out a disk. (and no, the drive was not
reading it at the time)
Do I have the world's worst 500, or are these problems bound to happen to ALL
500s?
John Meyersmalibo@arizona.edu (Rob McConeghy) (11/23/87)
In article <135@wybbs.COM>, meyers@wybbs.COM (John Meyers) writes: > About one week after my warantee expired on my A500, the drive would begin > to not be able to read the write (dis)enable notch. I would get prompts to > ENABLE disks that already were. (And I still am.) Worse yet, my drive did > the "1541{ Crunch" when I pulled out a disk. (and no, the drive was not > reading it at the time) > > Do I have the world's worst 500, or are these problems bound to happen to ALL > 500s? a I have had no problems with my 500 at all and I got one of the first ones the local dealer got in.
NETOPRHM@NCSUVM.BITNET (Hal Meeks) (11/24/87)
I have seen the same problem with two 500's. One was new, right out
of the box. Would sometimes fail to boot up the Workbench Disk supplied
with the machine, had problems reading diskettes written on other
machines and would bring up the title screen of Silent Service
(notorious for its copy protection scheme) but do nothing else.
My guess is the drive head is out of alignment. I really hope this
isn't a trend. I have been hearing reports about a "bad batch" of
500's that one store had, where 4 out of 20 exibited this problem.
My 2000 is (noisily) clipping right along, however.
Hal netoprhm@ncsuvm.bitnet