#Flaky A1000
I've had an amusing little glitch occur lately. It's intermittent, but
irritatingly frequent. When the system reboots (usually 'cause I crashed
it, but not always), it doesn't. Everything goes fine up until the
startup-sequence has completed and the system attempts to validate the disk
in df0:. It tells me the disk is unreadable and continues to try to
validate it. Moreover, with _no_ disk in df1:, I get the little disk icon
with the caption "DF1:BAD". If I reboot again, it usually comes up no
problem.
I have an Amiga 1000 with a StarboardII (1/2 meg) and a Supra hard drive
controller. I've done a memory diagnostic and it passed with flying colors.
I just wondered if this sounded familiar to anyone.
BTW. Please don't advise me to replace my 1000 with a 2000 (and
especially not a 500). I can't afford to. It's that simple. Maybe next
Christmas.
MCR – San Jose, CA