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- From: Steve Powell <Rock@g4wyc.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: HD Floppy Drive
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 96 02:45:11 GMT
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- In article <4hd7qn$n44@newsbf02.news.aol.com> kcirevam@aol.com (Kcirevam) writes:
- > O.K. I need some help concerning the power computing amiga HD floppy
- > drive. The problem I am having is with the upper tracks of a HD diskette.
- > When I format an HD disk in Amiga format (1.76M) I get read/write errors
- > when I am copying data to the disk. I only get read/write errors on the
- > last few tracks of the disk, between tracks 75 and 79. I don't encounter
- > read errors on DD Amiga format disks so whatever the problem is it only
- > concerns the HD operation of the drive. Since the problem is only on the
- > upper tracks I am uncertain what could be the problem. I suspect the
- > driver software off-hand but I don't know where to download updated driver
- > software from. If anyone has had a similar problem and knows what the
- > cause it, please let me know.
-
- Well I heard mention, that having the XL (Actually, I think it was the
- Dell type) too close to the monitor can cause r/w errors. Mine has been
- suffering that for ages. Today I installed some 60ns RAM and decided to
- resite the XL HD floppy away from the monitor when rebuilding
- everything... And it now appears that I can formate HD disks in my
- external again, yippeee!!! (Of course, it could all be a fluke!)
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