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- From: wsldanke@cs.ruu.nl (Wessel Dankers)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Floppy Disk Problems
- Date: 12 Mar 96 21:20:41 +0100
- Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- Message-ID: <1272.6645T1280T2057@cs.ruu.nl>
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- Hoppy <hoppy@division.co.uk> wrote:
- > Hello!
-
- > I've noticed some scary behaviour with the floppy drives on Amiga's. The
- > same thing seems to happen on A1200 and A500 machines.
-
- > I was wondering if anybody else has seen the same behaviour and can shed
- > some more light on the issue.
-
- > What I have noticed is that if you format a floppy and put some files on it
- > all is fine. If some more files are written to the floppy using a
- > **DIFFERENT** floppy drive then all hell breaks loose. You see all sorts of
- > bad block errors, volume not validated and even not a dos disk in volume.
-
- Come to think of it, when I'm reading/writing to floppy *and* my HDD at the same
- time, all of a sudden my HDD starts giving checksum errors! I have a 120W power
- supply, I don't think this is the problem. My HDD is a Samsung Electronics
- 120MW4.3. (3.5")
-
- A1200, no extra's except some fastmem.
-
-
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