Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU!bryce From: bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Expansion drive problem Message-ID: <8707250721.AA00747@cogsci.berkeley.edu> Date: Sat, 25-Jul-87 03:21:32 EDT Article-I.D.: cogsci.8707250721.AA00747 Posted: Sat Jul 25 03:21:32 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 18:20:37 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: Institute of Cognitive Studies, UC Berkeley Lines: 29 In article <468@cc5.bbn.com.BBN.COM> you write: > >OK, here is a bizarre one. I have a standard 512K Amiga and an expansion >drive. The external drive seems to work fine, except for one thing: > >Certain physical disks cannot be written with it. When I try, it gives me the >requestor box saying "Disk is write protected". It makes no difference which >position the protection slide is in. [The disks work ok on the internal >drive] I had the same problem. The little mechanical arm was bent and was not pushed down far enough to trip the sensor. Some tape/paper to build up a bulge on your disks near the write protect hole would help in the short term. For the long term you will need some simple mechanical work on your drives, easiest might be some epoxy to build up the tip of the trip arm. >...no obvious gap for which light to pass through the write-protect hole when >the slide is in the write-enable position. Some drives have a sensor that directly passes light, some have a mechanical arm that then leads to the actual sensor. (probably an optical sensor in either case) ----------------------------- |\ /| . Ack! (NAK, EOT, SOH) {o O} . ( " ) bryce@cogsci.berkeley.EDU -or- ucbvax!cogsci!bryce U "Success leads to stagnation; stagnation leads to failure."