Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ALDERAAN.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM!Crawley From: Crawley@ALDERAAN.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (Eric S. Crawley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Atari warranty estimates are EXTREMELY accurate Message-ID: <19880511144913.2.CRAWLEY@FLIGHTLESS-WATERFOWL.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> Date: 11 May 88 14:49:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 22 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?