[comp.sys.amiga.tech] Dead Drive...

rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rick Francis Golembiewski) (05/03/89)

My external drive seems to have died, here are the symptoms:

It responds to taking a disk in or out (ie clicking drive light goes on
when a disk is inserted etc.), the drive will occasionally work
normally, however not for long, it soon gives a read write error then
claims that the disk is unreadable (however the disks are good in the
internal drive...).  I checked out the drive and there is nothing obiously
broken, and all cables are in place, the power checked out ok.  I
would appreciate any ideas possible problems, also an explaination of
the functions of each of the data pins (and their expected logic
states) would be helpful...

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