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- From: ridgwad@PEAK.ORG (Dean Ridgway)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Floppy Disk Problems
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 00:15:56 -0800
- Organization: CS Outreach Services, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
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- References: <826566240.25448@romeo.division.co.uk>
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- In article <826566240.25448@romeo.division.co.uk>,
- Hoppy <hoppy@division.co.uk> wrote:
-
- >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.
-
- Sounds to me like you have an alignment problem. I have taken formatted
- disks with files over to a friends house and he has no problems writing more
- files to that disk.
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