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- From: chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall)
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- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
- Date: 25 Jan 1996 14:05:19 GMT
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- nyle landas (nyle@cyber1.servtech.com) wrote:
-
- : 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.
-
- Someone has to be the first to make the break from floppy drives.
-
-
- : 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.
-
- No. I've gotten errors from just about everything else, even format. I
- formatted a DD floppy in the HD drive and it errored out. I formatted it in
- a DD drive and it works fine. Oh well, it's not that big of a deal. I
- hardly ever use the floppy drive anyway. The only reason I leave one on
- the system is to keep the bad disk icon off of Workbench. I wish that C=
- would have setup a check for DF0: before it's mounted at bootup.
-
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- Chris Hall
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