Power Computing ATARI PC720 Owner's Manual page 13

1. Make sure that you have powered up your Amiga with the Isolating
switch in position 1 and the function switch in position
0
(NORMAL
MODE).
2. Check your drive with a WORKBENCH or EXTRAS disk. Many
games load is unusual ways and are not a good test for the drive. If a
drive works with Workbench then it is unlikely to be faulty.
3. Check your drive on a friend's computer. If it works in there then it is
highly likely that the problem lies with your Amiga (yes this does hap-
pen!), and sending the drive back to us will not help you to get it working.
If you have to call our technical department, please have the exact
symptoms of the fault, and what you did ready for our staff.
"my PC880 dosen't w o r k , or "The drive won't format" are unlikely to tell
us much about your problem. The description below would be more
helpful:
Iconnected the PC880B to my Amiga 500. which also has a 512K RAM expansion
and a modem fitted. I set the isolatingswitch to position l and the function switch
to position 0. I booted the Amiga w'th my workbench disk in the internal drive.
and no disk in the PC880. The workbench loaded asnormal. but an icon appeared
forthe PC880B. saying "DFl Bad". Puninga disk in the PC880made no difference
to this
-
it did not seem to be reading the disk. I tried the drive on a friend's Amiga
and it did exactly the same.
This would help our technician to find any fault that existed and would
mean that you would spend much less time on the telephone to us.