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- From: atlep@alkymi.unit.no (Atle \ystein Pedersen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Floppy Disk Write Error...
- Date: 8 Feb 1996 09:10:19 GMT
- Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
- Message-ID: <4fcelr$8bj@due.unit.no>
- References: <4fa0ca$9o9@caesar.ultra.net>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: jord.alkymi.unit.no
- To: jhg@mail.ultranet.com
-
- In article <4fa0ca$9o9@caesar.ultra.net>, jhg@wm.ultranet.com (jhg) writes:
- |> When copying files from either a HD or another floppy drive I find myself
- |> keeping my fingers crossed that the transfer will be successful and I won't
- |> see this requester pop up;
- |>
- |> Empty
- |> has a write error
- |> on disk block ####
- |>
- |> Try Again Cancel
- .
- .
- |> the disk attempts to write, flashes the Requester, you select 'Cancel',
- |>
- |> and on, and on, and on, until the write is either a success or you run
- |> out of bad blocks...
- |>
- |> Have I missed something? Has OS 3.x actually fixed this annoying 'problem'?
- |> Are there MS_DOG-like "Abort - Retry - Fail" options??
- |>
- |> Any/all comments appreciated,
- This one has annoyed me too..
- A simple (but not satisfying) solution is to remove the disk after the
- requester has popped up.
- Then when the Replace Disk requester appears, choose cancel....
- And voila...
-
- (Hey, you said any/all comments....)
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