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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 and floppy CRC errors
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.181705.4948@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:17:05 GMT
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- In article <1gigpvINN4g9@morrow.stanford.edu> GG.MPD@forsythe.stanford.edu (Michael Durket) writes:
- >Has anyone else noticed that OS/2 seems to have problems with
- >excessive amount of CRC errors and data checks on floppies that
- >are perfectly readable under DOS? I've had this happen to me on
- >too many machines and with too many floppies to think it's not
- >an OS/2 problem. Ejecting the disk and re-inserting it doesn't
- >always cure it. Is anybody at IBM aware of the problem and/or
- >is there an APAR out against it?
-
- The situation has steadily improved to the point where I don't notice
- any problems with the Service Pak.
-
- If you want to apply the floppy patch individually, get ahold of the
- IBM1FLPY patch file, available via anonymous ftp from
- software.watson.ibm.com.
-
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