Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ukma!psuvm.bitnet!tuccvm!ncsuvm.bitnet!netoprhm From: NETOPRHM@NCSUVM.BITNET (Hal Meeks) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A500 drives Message-ID: <254NETOPRHM@NCSUVM> Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 09:39:19 EST Article-I.D.: NCSUVM.254NETOPRHM Posted: Tue Nov 24 09:39:19 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 16:10:22 EST References: 135@wybbs.COM Organization: North Carolina State University - Computing Center Lines: 12 I have seen the same problem with two 500's. One was new, right out of the box. Would sometimes fail to boot up the Workbench Disk supplied with the machine, had problems reading diskettes written on other machines and would bring up the title screen of Silent Service (notorious for its copy protection scheme) but do nothing else. My guess is the drive head is out of alignment. I really hope this isn't a trend. I have been hearing reports about a "bad batch" of 500's that one store had, where 4 out of 20 exibited this problem. My 2000 is (noisily) clipping right along, however. Hal netoprhm@ncsuvm.bitnet