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Dodgy Floppy

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From: Michael Chappell
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 00:00
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<rant mode>

If it's not one thing, its another...moan,moan.

</rant mode>

Now that's off my chest, I need to ask all you brilliant Acorn owners
<grovel> about a problem I have a problem with my floppy disc drive. 

As you may know, after a lot of good advice I decided to invest in an
Atomwide fast serial card which, I must say, does speed things up a bit
(even with the problem of the news download speed, but I digress). After
fitting the podule, I put the disc provided by Atomwide in to load up a new
version of !SerialDev and an error message came up:

Disc not formatted

I then tried my other backup discs, program discs and found that *all* my
floppy discs came up with the same message.

All I can think of is that I dislodged something when putting in the podule.
I tried taking out all the podules (386 card) etc and reseating them but to
no avail.


Has anyone got any ideas?



Mike



P.S. I must thank Atomwide who provided me with the programs that were on
the disc within hours by email. Thanks guys!


 

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From: Michael Chappell <mchappell@argonet.co.uk>
Subject: Dodgy Floppy
Date: 1997/03/24
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