Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!umd5!uvaarpa!virginia!kesmai!dca From: dca@kesmai.COM (David C. Albrecht) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: One A500 Three Bad Disk Drives ?!!! Keywords: A500, Drive, Lemon^3 Message-ID: <174@kesmai.COM> Date: 28 Jun 88 23:48:07 GMT References: <2228@ur-tut.UUCP> Organization: Kesmai Corporation, Charlottesville, VA Lines: 19 In article <2228@ur-tut.UUCP>, rhir_ltd@ur-tut (Bob Hirosky) writes: > > Since I bought my A500 last February I've had the internal > drive replaced twice. Last week I picked up my machine with high > hopes that this third drive might work. But Noooooooooo! > > Should I go back to the dealer and say, "Hey, it's time for #4". > Perhaps he should look for some other problem? > Is there a chance that he could send it to Commodore to be fixed? > If so would I get my Amiga back before Fall? Winter? Next Spring? > I was just reading an article where they stated that many floppy disk problems are due to marginal power supplies not any fault in the drives themselves. This was an article in some electronics mag and they went on to how to test your supply etc.. Given the success you have had with drives there is a good possibility that your problem lies elsewhere than the drive itself and the power supply might not be a bad place to look. David Albrecht