prem@geomag.fsu.edu (Prem Subrahmanyam) (09/11/89)
I'm sure this problem has happened many times before, but, well, now it's happened to me and I would like some suggestions. My df1: drive has for several weeks seemed to have more of its share of read/write errors. I just chalked it up to bad disks (they're tan, not blue... you know how that goes...) and diskdoctored/reformatted/reused them. Well, today, when I pop in any disk that I know is readable (verified by inserting in df0: and looking around), df1: makes those nasty 3 clicks like I'm inserting a brand new unformatted disk in it, and tells me it's not a DOS disk. Well, I beg to differ, but..... In any case, for others who have had similar problems, where has the problem been diagnosed as coming from, from the Amiga, or the drive. The Amiga I have is an old A1000 (don't know if it's pre-halfbrite or not), while the drive is a several month old Amiga 1010 drive. Considering relative age, would it be safe to guess that it's the Amiga that's ill, or do you think it's the drive. I know empirically that there are a number of ways that I could test and find out, but I'd like to get some advice before dragging my whole computer into the shop to have it serviced, tested, or whatever. To let you know of my exact setup. I've got an A1000, with an A1010 external drive, and a borrowed MicroBotics 2Meg external board. Of course, I've got a standard 1048 monitor. Now, when I insert disks into df1:, they come up "readable", but all have read/write errors. Yet, the read/write errors seem to go away when I put the disk in df0:. Geez, what a bummer!!!!!!!! Anxiously awaiting all replies......... ---Prem Subrahmanyam (prem@geomag.gly.fsu.edu)
fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe) (09/13/89)
In article <180@vsserv.scri.fsu.edu>, prem@geomag.fsu.edu (Prem
Subrahmanyam) writes about an external drive that fails to validate disks
which validate properly in df0: on his A1000.
I've had similar problems from time to time, although df0: was the
drive that failed. Cleaning the disk drive (with a cleaning disk) has
solved the problem for me every time so far. It's worth a try.
--Fabbian Dufoe
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