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From: rhir_ltd@ur-tut (Bob Hirosky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: One A500 Three Bad Disk Drives ?!!!
Keywords: A500, Drive, Lemon^3
Message-ID: <2228@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 88 01:51:08 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Rochester, Computing Center
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	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!
	The problem is two fold:
		1)It only formats about 20% of the disks I feed it;
		  the other 80% or so typically have "bad sector
		  numbers" on the first or last tracks. I've tried
		  brand new Sony, Kodak, BASF, and Nashua disks
		  with the same "success" in each case.

		2)It often fails to read disks that were made or
		  even just used with one of my other two drives.
		  Sometimes it replies read/write error when loading
		  a certain file.  But what it really likes to do is
		  say "not a dos disk" about many of my disks including
		  the original Wbench. Disk.

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?

	Thanks for any hints, suggestions, comments, etc.

Bob