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- From: wblock@rapidnet.com (Warren Block)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
- Date: 20 Jan 1996 15:45:45 GMT
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- Chris Hall (chall@clover.cleaf.com) wrote:
- : Edmund Vermeulen (edmundv@grafix.xs4all.nl) wrote:
-
- : : Ever heard of verify?
-
- : 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.
-
- Just a guess, but you wouldn't happen to be using high density disks in a
- double-density drive, would you? This is exactly what happens.
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