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- From: efp90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Pritchard EF)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: PC880B External Floppy and the A1200
- Message-ID: <13651@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 14:41:54 GMT
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- If you've got a Power Computing PC880B and want to get an A1200, bad
- news I'm afraid:
-
- The PC880B doesn't work with the A1200!!!
-
- At least, not well...
-
- I got a brand new PC880B for my A500 in October, and was quite pleased
- with it (except for the fact that the Anti-Virus function is
- completely useless as it stops all writes to track 0, and Amiga writes
- a track at a time so valid write accesses to that track are made
- illegal!), and this month I got my A1200. They don't like each other!
-
- Perfectly valid disks are proclaimed to have a `read error' on them,
- cancelling the resulting requester multiple times often lets the data
- be read, and the disks work well in the internal drive (this happens
- for all disks OFS, FFS, OFS+DC, FFS+DC). Also the drive doesn't seem
- to like disk changes any more, often refusing to recognise a disk when
- you put it in, even if it is the same one that you just took out!
-
- I rung Power Computing yesterday, and they are aware of the problem,
- but, as yet, do not know the cause. They said to ring back at the end
- of next week and they may have a solution. They did not offer to swap
- the drive for a different model which does work...
-
- This applies only to the PC880B drive, other Power Drives without
- Blitz and Anti-Virus seem to work (I've tried the 'Economy' drive), so
- it must be a problem with Blitz or Anti-Virus (even though they are
- turned off). There is a socketed chip in the drive, which probably has
- the extra `stuff' on it, so it is possible that you could get a
- replacement for that; it looks likely to cost you though!
-
- This must really have Power Computing in a panic since the PC880B is
- possibly the most popular drive for the Amiga, and probably their
- biggest earner.
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- E.F.Pritchard ///
- efp90@uk.ac.soton.ecs \\\/// Amiga I seriously need something
- University of Southampton \xx/ to go on this side of my
- England. signature, any ideas?
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