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- From: markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Markus Illenseer)
- Subject: Re: DF0: - slow to respond.....
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- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.081021.15812@unibi.uni-bielefeld.de>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 08:10:21 GMT
- References: <stewartm.05v1@bfield.uucp>
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- In article <stewartm.05v1@bfield.uucp>, stewartm@bfield.uucp (Stewart Mckinnon) writes:
- |> I have an A2000 with 2 internal floppies, 40 meg HD and 3 megs of RAM. I have
- |> an odd situation with my DF0: drive..... when I insert a disk, the drive light
- |> takes about 4 or 5 seconds to poll the disk. When I insert a disk in DF1: the
- |> drive light comes on the *INSTANT* the disk does in. When I use OPUS, it seems
- [...]
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- Are you using a 'noclick' tool for your drive(s) ? If so, this could explain
- the long delay. Otherwise i would take a look onthe drive, is there dust in it ?
- Is the modell old ? You might exchange the drives, too.
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- Greets, Markus.
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