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- From: aces@mcode.amdahl.com (Jeffrey D. Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: HELP WITH DF0
- Message-ID: <27IX02TP20M201@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 15:22:09 GMT
- References: <1992Aug31.183459.23564@ils.nwu.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug31.183459.23564@ils.nwu.edu>, tsui@ils.nwu.edu writes:
- > My fiance's A2000 df0: drive is doing wierd things, here are the symptoms:
- >
- > It basically boots up with df0:BAD, but there's nothing in the drive!! When
- > she puts a disk in, it doesn't read it. If she puts in an uninitialized disk
- > the computer will ask if she wants to format it. She pushes continue and the
- > machine goes into the countdown, the only problem is that its not counting
- > down.
- That's very similar to my experience. The resolution was replacing
- a burned-out CIA 8520 chip. Cost was somewhere in $20 range, including
- labor.
-