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From: rickfor@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Rick Forrest)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Yet another weird problem; DOS thinking floppy was ejected.
Keywords: Disk drive, floppy, AIR, question, eject, spam.
Message-ID: <5153@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 29 Sep 89 12:23:16 GMT
References: <12788@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: rickfor@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Rick Forrest)
Organization: NCR Corp., Engineering & Manufacturing - Columbia, SC
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[ some stuff about an AIR drive causing "you must replace ..." requesters]

I have seen the above behaviour on a Prodrive. I don't think it is the
drive's fault at all. Let me explain.

When I first got my system (500, monitor, A501, printer), I shopped around for
an external drive and got a Prodrive, because it was cheap - 200 bucks 1.5 yrs
ago. then the problem started - "You MUST replace volume FOO in BLAH" or 
something like that. Take it to the dealer. Nothing. Take it home - boom, it
happened again. I finally isolated (after buying a disk drive pwr supply on
the advice of my dealer) the cause of the problem - my printer. It seems that
when i have my printer attached, but turned off, I get the requester. No
problems as long as the printer is disconnected or on. More specifically, it's
probably my printer cable, but i don't use my printer much, so i never 
investigated.

For what it's worth.

Rick Forrest.