Drive Woes

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From: B Weber
Date: Thu, 24 May 1984 13:36

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I have been having a tough time with my RANA 1000 disk drive.
The drive gets a lot of CRC errors, especially when first powered
up.  After about a half hour, the situation improves; after about
an hour, the drive performs fine.  Do I have the only
disk drive in the world that has to warm up?  I have checked the
disk speed when it is "cold", and it's OK.  When I use it "cold",
it takes forever to load a file, and some commercial programs,
especially those that use double sectoring, don't load at all.

It wouldn't be so bad, except that this is the THIRD Rana drive
I have had (it's only 2 months old, and got sent to me by the
Rana service center after my second drive was returned with 
similar problems.).  As far as I can tell, I don't abuse the
drive...it just lives on my desk, away from the window and
TV, covered.  Anybody have similar problems with their Rana
drives? Anybody with an Indus want to trade...?

                                        Ben Weber  pyuxn!benw
                                        AT&T Tech OSTC
                                        Piscataway, NJ

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