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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

4066.0. " Help !! Broken Internal Drive Df0 " by LARVAE::TIERNEY (the answer is YES ! ... now whats the question ? ) Thu Aug 30 1990 17:11

	My 10 year old gorilla (I suppose I mean my off-spring) broke
	" his " internal Df0: A500 drive.

	He managed to destroy the microswitch (left hand side/front of	
	the internal drive, it was used to sense the position of the 
	Drive Write Enable/Disable slide. 

	It works find just will not write to disk.

	The microswitch looks like this (not to scale)....


                            ++  ++
                            ||  *| This plastic post has snapped.
                          +-++--++-+
                          |        |
                          +--------+


	The local Mr. Fixit said buy a new disk (can't sell you the 
	fifty cent switch).

	Has anyone got a badly dead drive (but good pillar-switch) to
	save my youngest from being disinherited  ??

	Thanks  (?)  


	Mike

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
4066.1	TANSTAAFL	SDOGUS::WILLIAMS	TOPGUN	`Thu Sep 06 1990 11:16`	5
	Guess what Mike! That is NOT a $.50 switch!!!!! Send me E-Mail and I'll see what I have in spare parts. TOPGUN