Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!bbn!cc5.bbn.com!denbeste 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 Article-I.D.: cc5.468 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 Lines: 31 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)