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From: Crawley@ALDERAAN.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (Eric S. Crawley)
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Subject: Re: Atari warranty estimates are EXTREMELY accurate
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Date: 11 May 88 14:49:00 GMT
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    Date: 6 May 88 07:06:42 GMT
    From: portal!cup.portal.com!DaveFlory@uunet.uu.net

    > thought I should share it and possibly warn others.]
    > Exactly 92 days after purchasing my SH204 hard disk, it failed to spin
    > up.   Of course, the 90 day Atari warranty had just expired along with

    Just curious, did you try contacting the dealer, or Atari? I have heard
    a lot of just out of warrantee stuff being replaced while in the vicinity
    of customer service.

I did contact the dealer and they said it was not possible.  I should
have talked directly to Atari though.  It turns out that the index
sensor on the disk was dead so the disk could not find out the position
of the heads.  The repair shop borrowed a sensor from another disk and
managed to get the data off the disk.  A new sensor will be installed
later this week.  I picked up a Supra drive last week since I couldn't
wait for the Atari disk to be fixed.  It is much quieter than the Atari
drive.

Anybody want to buy a slightly used SH204 drive?