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- From: chazl@county.lmt.mn.org
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: bad floppies
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.001035.3169@lmt.mn.org>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 00:10:35 GMT
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- Organization: LaserMaster Corp.
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- A submission to Info-Mac Digest [BAD INIT] brought up something that has always
- puzzled me.
-
- The BAD INIT, for those who may be unfamiliar with it, allows you to reformat
- disks that are rejected as bad by System 6.x; it marks out the bad sectors and
- allows the disk to be used [just like System 7.0 does on its own], albeit with
- a reduced capacity.
-
- Now, the puzzling thing. Why would anyone use this? Every floppy disk I have
- ever purchased has come with a lifetime warranty. If one fails, I drop it into
- the bad disk box and every few months divvy them up by vendor and mail them
- back for replacements. Some vendors even pay for the postage. I can't imagine
- why anyone would throw away or try to salvage a disk that fails to format
- either out of the box or years later, given that it will be cheerfully replaced
- by its manufacturer.
-
- Comments?
-
- chaz
-