euaanu@eua.ericsson.se (Arto Nummelin) (03/02/90)
I bought my 520 STE in december-89 and I'm very satisfied with it, except for one thing. If I try to access a disk and it isn't inserted I get the (CANCEL) (RETRY) dialog box. If I put in the disk and click on (RETRY) the machine BOMBS!!!!! (with bombs on half the screen). The same thing occurs if I try to write to a write protected disk, remove the write protection, and then click on RETRY. Has anybody else experienced this?? /Arto
ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) (03/03/90)
In article <2701@erix.ericsson.se> euaanu@euas20.ericsson.se (Arto Nummelin) writes: >I bought my 520 STE in december-89 and I'm very satisfied with it, except >for one thing. If I try to access a disk and it isn't inserted I get >the (CANCEL) (RETRY) dialog box. If I put in the disk and click on >(RETRY) the machine BOMBS!!!!! (with bombs on half the screen). The same >thing occurs if I try to write to a write protected disk, remove the >write protection, and then click on RETRY. > >Has anybody else experienced this?? I have seen things like this, but don't remember where. I have used a 1040 ST and now use Mega ST2. I just tried an experiment... remove floppy from drive A:. drag icon for a file from drive A: to drive D:. get the CANCEL-REPLY dialog box. put the disk back in. copy proceeds just fine. Does this sequence this give you bombs too? It seems to me that the times I have had trouble have been while running application programs and I have had both bombs and program aborts. I try to keep my drive a: loaded most of the time. -- L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo. ljdickey@water.UWaterloo.ca ljdickey@water.BITNET ljdickey@water.UUCP ..!uunet!watmath!water!ljdickey ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu