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- From: jtv@asd03-21.dial.xs4all.nl (Jeroen T. Vermeulen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Floppy Disk Problems
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 96 15:32:02
- Organization: Leiden University, Mathematics & Computer Science, The Netherlands
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- In article <826566240.25448@romeo.division.co.uk> Hoppy <hoppy@division.co.uk> writes:
-
- > I've noticed some scary behaviour with the floppy drives on Amiga's. The same
- > thing seems to happen on A1200 and A500 machines.
- ...
- > 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.
-
- You must be either consistently doing something funny (like keeping one of the
- drives inside your microwave oven or under the dog) or Extremely Unlucky.
-
- I for one am still using the same old DD external floppy drive I used with my
- A500 on top of my A4000 today, and the only problems I've had were with the A500
- internal drive after a lifetime of faithful service.
-
- One thing you might try is to buy a head-cleaning set and treat your drives with
- that.
-
-
- > Paul D. Lee Division Limited
- > "Hoppy" 19 Apex Court, Woodlands
- > Bristol BS12 4JT, UK
- > Tel: +44 1454 615554
- > Fax: +44 1454 615532
- > Email: hoppy@division.co.uk
- >
-
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- # Jeroen T. Vermeulen \"How are we doing kid?"/ Yes, we use Amigas. #
- #--- jtv@xs4all.nl ---\"Oh, same as always."/-- ... --#
- #jvermeul@wi.leidenuniv.nl \ "That bad, huh?" / Got a problem with that? #
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