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From: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: how do I fix a broken disk drive?
Message-ID: <1236@spice.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Tue, 14-Jul-87 01:48:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: spice.1236
Posted: Tue Jul 14 01:48:18 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 15-Jul-87 04:01:56 EDT
Reply-To: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi)
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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Keywords: disk drive alignment


I lent out my Amiga to a friend of mine that needed it for some work
he was doing.  Before it was moved, it would reject the Kickstart disk
when inserted some 25% of the time.  Other than that, the disk drive
read and wrote normally.  I did have some problems with cheap disks.
This was probably a sign that the drive was out of alignment, but not
enough so to cause a major catastrophe.

After being moved, my Amiga now refuses to accept Kickstart at all.
Apparently moving the computer gave the drive the extra "oomph" it
needed to fail entirely.  Contacting the one dealer in Pittsburgh that
still services Amigas, I found that a re-alignment costs $59.95, or a
new drive costs $150-$160 if a replacements is necessary.

My opinion is that $60 for a re-alignment is more than I can afford.
I am seeking a way to perform the re-alignment myself.  Does anybody
have any experience with this operation that they'd be willing to
share with me?  My Amiga has a NEC disk drive, complete with chain-saw
sound effects.  If I had money to spare, I'd buy a new drive
mail-order just to escape the flakiness of this one.  Right now,
however, I'll just settle for a working computer.  Thanks in advance.

				--M

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