Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!tekcae!vice!keithr From: keithr@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (U.D.M.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: HELP! - Possible Disk Control Chip Message-ID: <3084@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> Date: 1 Dec 88 15:32:23 GMT Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or. Lines: 15 My brother's old style 520 has just started acting up. When writing to a disk or creating a new folder the disk directory sector gets messed up, I think. After one of these operations the directory looks like garbage. Some of the "new" file names have resembalances(?) to words, characters from the ascii files on the disk. I know its not the disk drives, because I checked them out on my 1040. Could it be a loose disk controller chip? I've heard of such things but was wondering if anyone had any suggestions. Also when trying to do a disk copy from one disk to the other, the writing disk is not recognized, but the reading drive is. Any help is greatly appreciated. Keith Rast keithr@icogem1.ICO.TEK.COM