Floppy Pain In The Butt Problem

[Dr_Righteous]

First, I'll start with my specs... A4000D, 040/25MHz (with FPU), 2M Chip, 16M Fast, 8M Ext (GVP A400 SCSI board), 2x 1.2G IDE drives (DH0, 1,  2), 4G SCSI drive (DH3), 4-Speed SCSI CDROM, WB ver 3.9... Pretty standard stuff.

The problem I'm having is kinda strange. Every now and then, my system reads my floppy drive for no apearant reason. Ordinarilly this isn't a problem, but whenever I try to restore an ADF to a disk, I have to do it several times because this read cycle interferes with both Tacktool and DiskWiz.

I've yanked all my WB enhancements out, even disabled CrossDos, and still have this problem.

Anyone have any ideas?

 - Doc

[Dr_Righteous]

Of course not... Why would there be any viruses written for the Amiga?

LOL

No, there's no viruses... At least none VirusZ is picking up...

Um, memory resident virus trying to write to floppy boot blocks.

But of course you've checked that, haven't you ?  ;-)

-Jar.

[Dr_Righteous]

Excellent idea... Thanks! Hmm, now where did I put that can of freon....  :-D

I'd suggect pulling the drive down and testing the diskinsert switch with an ohm meter.