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- From: chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
- Date: 23 Jan 1996 06:07:15 GMT
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- Warren Block (wblock@rapidnet.com) wrote:
-
- : Chris Hall (chall@clover.cleaf.com) wrote:
-
- : : 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.
-
- No, it's using HD & DD floppies in a high density drive. I've found out
- that a lot of the errors I've gotten were from the HD floppy drive that
- was shipped in my 4000. I took the HD floppy out, set the DF0: jumper to
- external and put a external DD floppy on it. I'm hoping that the
- internal Zips will be out soon, that will fill the empty space. :)
-
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- Chris Hall
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