[comp.sys.atari.st.tech] Floppies & Bombs

flynn@clotho.acm.rpi.edu (Kevin Lincoln Flynn) (08/15/90)

My fiance'e owns a 520ST with two floppy drives.  Yesterday, both drives
suddenly ceased working: click on A:, get '0 items', click on B:, get the
same.  Trying to format a disk resulted in the drive seemingly completing
the formatting pass, then failing - immediately - on the verify pass.  The
day before yesterday, both drives were working.

Swapping cables doesn't help; removing one drive from the daisy chain doesn't
help.  Opening the CPU case and reseating things worked for a bit, then
failed.  In fact, she now gets eight bombs when she hits the power.

Any advice would be much appreciated!

Thanks in advance,
  Flynn

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