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- From: dbeeman@dogstar.Colorado.edu (Dave Beeman)
- Subject: Re: DEATH to floppies!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.000531.19640@colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- References: <1993Jan27.063559.71696@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> <1993Jan27.195810.8919@ico.isc.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:05:31 GMT
- Lines: 14
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- In article <1993Jan27.195810.8919@ico.isc.com>, timhu@ico.isc.com (Timothy Hu) writes:
- |> In article <1993Jan27.063559.71696@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> ry01@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ROBERT YUNG) writes:
- |> >I've had it! I'm always getting bad sectors on my 1.44 disk! They format fine,
- |> >but when I put stuff on them, I'm screwed! I've tried name brand disks and even
- |> >they can go BAD! IS there an alternative?
- |>
- |> I haven't had a bad floppy in over three years. I suspect that something
- |> is wrong with your drive. When was the last time you cleaned it?
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- I've seen a couple of cases like this where the problem was a bad controller
- card. You might see if you can find someone who will let you swap drives
- and controllers as an experiment before you blame one or the other.
-
- Dave Beeman
-