flaky disk drive

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From: Zachary Shanes Levow
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1989 00:47

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I've had this problem for a short while, but I thought
all ST's did this.  I have a 1040 STf from about 2 years
ago, when I switch disks it doesn't handle it correctly
suppose, my disk has 400k free and I loaded a 40K file
into memory from one disk, then put my 400k disk in the
drive and saved.  The 400K disk now says 360k free, but
shows no file!.  I talked to another st'er about this
told me to check if there was a "c" on the bottom of
my computer- there is.  He said my problem was that about
2 years ago, Atari put a different drive in the ST's
and marked them with a c.  This is making my life keck!
Is thare anything I can do, shouldn't ateri replace it,
and should they charge me?
Thanks,
zl04+@andrew.cmu.edu

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From: zl04+@andrew.cmu.edu (Zachary Shanes Levow)
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Subject: flaky disk drive
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Date: 31 Oct 89 00:47:24 GMT
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