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- From: Hoppy <hoppy@division.co.uk>
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- Subject: Floppy Disk Problems
- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 17:44:00 GMT
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- Hello!
-
- I've noticed some scary behaviour with the floppy drives on Amiga's. The same
- thing seems to happen on A1200 and A500 machines.
-
- I was wondering if anybody else has seen the same behaviour and can shed some
- more light on the issue.
-
- What I have noticed is that if you format a floppy and put some files on it all
- is fine. If some more files are written to the floppy using a **DIFFERENT**
- floppy drive then all hell breaks loose. You see all sorts of bad block errors,
- volume not validated and even not a dos disk in volume.
-
- I sell a game and this has happened on at least 4 different drives. I
- reproduced it with ease using a second floppy disk drive.
-
- I can only hazard a guess and suggest that if two floppy driver are slightly
- different (in terms of rotation speed, or alignment) then when one writes to a
- disk that was formatted and previously written to on another, data is scribbled
- on.
-
- I have good evidence to suggest that this is a generic problem rather than
- being specific to my Amiga......
-
- So has anybody out there seen this? What can you do about it?
-
- Thanks for any help.
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