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From: Ron McCarty
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:26

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I bought a couple obsolete zenith notebook computers from the zenith
user's group and I am findingt that they all seem to have a rather
obnoxious problem with the external floppy drive interface. As
I try to read from the floppy, I keep getting "Drive not ready: Abort
Retry Ignore" errors. If I am just doing a copy, I can usually use Retry
until the data gets read. If I am using something like WordPerfect
I can not read them at all.

I put in fresh back up batteries. The drives are setup as 720k. Is this
a problem that was inherent in Zenith's early notebook computers or is there
something I am doing wrong? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Ron McCarty

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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 10:26:45 EST
From: Ron McCarty <RON@psuvm.psu.edu>
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