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- From: chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall)
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- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
- Date: 14 Jan 1996 08:10:55 GMT
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- Edmund Vermeulen (edmundv@grafix.xs4all.nl) wrote:
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- : Ever heard of backup programs?
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- Ever heard the endless clicking when your disk swapping while trying to
- move 50megs of data?
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- : Ever heard of verify?
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- Sure but I've seen many floppies that verify ok and go bad afterwards.
- When you write then verify, those magnetic field are fresh. If the media
- is just a little unstable, it could write ok but loose data with in a few
- hours, or days. I've seen floppies verify ok and a few minutes later have
- bad sectors.
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- Chris Hall
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