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| 2709.1 | | IGETIT::ELLISM | Triumph.....British cars at their best! | Tue Jul 04 1989 18:14 | 5 |
| When I put my Amiga in a tower position I experienced exactlt the
same problems as you are having, at the time I didn't have a hard
disk either. Unfortunately, I've resorted to laying it flat again.
Martin
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| 2709.2 | | EEMELI::LINDEN | | Wed Jul 05 1989 05:33 | 8 |
| I've used my AMY in that kind of position nearly two months, and the
only problem that I've had with disk drives is that the boot drive
doesn't read BOOTBLOCK correctly on some disks, the problem has only
limited to MFF labeled disks, and the answer might be that the lower
head doesn't have the same contact pressure when in flat position.
- Kari
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| 2709.3 | Mine is o.k. | GLORY::SPATOULAS | Don't Automate the Past...Invent the Future... | Wed Jul 05 1989 12:23 | 8 |
| I have been using my Ami in the horizontal position for almost a year now.
I have not had ANY problems ..... Are there any alignment programs ??
In my C64 days I had bought an alignment program and had done it several
times...
...gss...
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| 2709.4 | | EEMELI::LINDEN | | Wed Jul 05 1989 12:50 | 4 |
| I think I've seen some programs which TUNE the drive, I'll check them
for tomorrow if I can only locate them. One of them might have been PD.
- Kari
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| 2709.5 | maybe different drives? | MUNICH::CARLI | Bernardo da Vinci - the Amiga genius | Wed Jul 05 1989 14:06 | 7 |
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I suspect that the floppy problems mostly have to with the manufacturer
of the drives. Here in Germany most of the original drives are from
Chinon. My old A1000 (yes I still have one...) has a Panasonic drive.
What drives are in your Amis?
Bernhard
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| 2709.6 | Check for RFI from Monitor! | OTOFS::B_CORBIN | BRIAN | Wed Jul 05 1989 20:21 | 6 |
| Before you do anything drastic try moving you monitor away from
the floppy drives. There may be some stray radio frequency interefence.
This used to be a problem with an AppleII clone of mine when I tried
to put the floppies next to the monitor from their ususal position
under it.
Brian
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| 2709.7 | | EEMELI::LINDEN | | Thu Jul 06 1989 05:33 | 13 |
| >What drives are in your Amis?
Well, I have in my A2000 model-A an CHINON drive, which has worked
quite perfectly.
To the previous note that I wrote about the tuning programs for disk
drives. I didn't found programs dedicated to tuning but from an
Lake Forest Logic Inc. I did found some CLI-based utilities that
have some tuning controls, but I'm not sure about do they tune just the
info on the disk or something more.
- Kari
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| 2709.8 | Towers are great... | TEACH::ART | Think the UNTHINKABLE | Mon Jul 10 1989 12:57 | 7 |
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I've had my A2000 in a tower-stand for over a year now; I've
got the stand sitting on the floor next to my desk. I've never
experienced any problems whatsoever either with my floppies
or my hard drive.
-Art
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| 2709.9 | | TALLIS::MCAFEE | Steve McAfee | Mon Jul 10 1989 20:18 | 9 |
| Sounds like a nice way to free up my desk. Where can I get a stand for
a 2000?
thanks,
steve
BTW I assume you leave the floppy drives on the top??? Otherwise
the harddisk would be upside down and I think that may be a no-no.
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| 2709.10 | Vertical Amigae | TEACH::ART | Think the UNTHINKABLE | Tue Jul 11 1989 21:13 | 6 |
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I'm just using a standard IBM-clone tower stand, and yeah,
the floppies are up top. I've got the whole tower sitting
on the floor -- saves LOTS of room.
-Art
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