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- From: nyle@cyber1.servtech.com (nyle landas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
- Date: 24 Jan 1996 18:07:31 GMT
- Organization: ServiceTech, Inc.
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- Chris Hall (chall@clover.cleaf.com) wrote:
- : Warren Block (wblock@rapidnet.com) wrote:
-
- : : Chris Hall (chall@clover.cleaf.com) wrote:
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- : : : Sure but I've seen many floppies that verify ok and go bad afterwards.
-
- : : 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. :)
-
- Chris,
-
- Just keep in mind that your situation does not hold for eveyone. I'm not
- sure what was wrong with your floppy drive but my HD in my old A4000 worked
- fine. Never had a disk go bad on me in the way you suggest. While I agree
- it would be nice to see the market migrate towards higher storage copacities
- for default media HD drives are still the defalt standard for personal
- computers. You didn't happen to be using HDBACKUP did you? That program
- is/was notorious for backing up stuff an then having disks fail in the
- backup. A software problem.
-
- -Nyle
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