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From: fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Expansion drive problem
Message-ID: <137@jc3b21.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Jul-87 01:45:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: jc3b21.137
Posted: Mon Jul 27 01:45:23 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 28-Jul-87 01:30:51 EDT
References: <468@cc5.bbn.com.BBN.COM>
Organization: St. Petersburg Jr. College, FL
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Summary: Might be the depth of the write-protect slide.

In article <468@cc5.bbn.com.BBN.COM>, denbeste@cc5.bbn.com.BBN.COM (Steven Den Beste) writes:
> 
> 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.

     When I bought my Amiga about a year ago the dealer advised me that the
newer disk drives used a pin to test the write-protect slide.  He said some
disks have too thin a slide.  The pin drops too far and gives a false
reading.  It sounds unlikely, but your problem might be related to that.

--Fabbian Dufoe
  350 Ling-A-Mor Terrace South
  St. Petersburg, Florida  33705
  813-823-2350

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