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Article #26541Re: Crash and Burn!!!
From: csan
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1987 12:36
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1987 12:36
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In article <534@maccs.UUCP> cs3c3cg@maccs.UUCP (Ray ) writes:
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>One day it was working fine, and all of a sudden, it refuses
>read about half of my disks!!!!
>Stranger still, I take them over to a friends ST and they work
>fine!!!!
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>Does anyone out there have any ideas for the sudden strange behaviour
>of my machine??? I find this very strange for only a 4 month old
>computer, and in my opinion does not reflect very well on Atari's
>quality control.
Have you cleaned your disk heads ? I found this on my first computer ...
If I didnt clean the heads regularily, I could not get the drive to read
anything from the disks.
(Sorry for posting to the net .... any attempts to post mail failed.)
Andie Ness . Department of Computer Science
EDINBURGH University.
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