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From: denbeste@cc5.bbn.com.BBN.COM (Steven Den Beste)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Expansion drive problem
Message-ID: <468@cc5.bbn.com.BBN.COM>
Date: Fri, 24-Jul-87 21:37:43 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 24 21:37:43 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 16:51:04 EDT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA
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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.

Visual inspection shows no difference between the disks that work and those
that don't - but the ones that don't work, consistently don't work. There is
no obvious gap for which light to pass through the write-protect hole when
the slide is in the write-enable position.

About one disk in five won't work.

Oh, I might mention that the disks that fail work perfectly in the built-in
drive. (DAMN but it is nice having the disks be named instead of positioned -
when I run into this I just swap drives and continue as if nothing had
happened.)

Anyone got any answers for me? I tried getting it repaired once, and it
cost me $75 to get told that there wasn't anything wrong. Of course, I
hadn't characterized it to this extent then. If the recommendation is
that I take it in for repair again, I'll make sure to take one of the
disks that doesn't work with me. However, I'd rather not shell out that
much money unless there is no other choice.
-- 

     Steven C. Den Beste
     Bolt Beranek & Newman, Cambridge MA
     denbeste@bbn.com  (ARPA or CSNET)