Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rochester!pt!spice.cs.cmu.edu!mjp 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 Lines: 32 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 -- Mike Portuesi / Carnegie-Mellon University Computer Science Department ARPA: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu UUCP: {backbone-site}!spice.cs.cmu.edu!mjp BITNET: rainwalker@drycas (a uVax-1 run by CMU Computer Club...tons o' fun) "Paradise is exactly like where you are right now...only much, much better" --Laurie Anderson, "Lanugage is a Virus"