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- From: cerovse@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Corey Cerovsek)
- Subject: Re: Where to get floppies cheap?
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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:23:13 GMT
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- In <1992Aug26.064225.11164@tamsun.tamu.edu> dlb5404@tamsun.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf) writes:
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- >Avoid purchasing the cheapest floppies you can unless you can afford to
- >a) pay the postage on the ones that format out with bad sectors or other
- >defects (to take advantage of the "lifetime warranty") or
- >(WORSE) b) LOSE DATA.
-
- >I've used a variety of diskettes from a variety of sources and the media
- >produced by 3M, Sony, BASF, and Verbatim have yet to format with bad
- >sectors for me. In contrast the DSDD 3.5" diskettes I bought from
- >MEI in 1990 (my last experience with the company) had about 1 disk in
- >10 refuse to format correctly (no bad sectors) or "go bad" after a month
- >of use. That 1 in 10 figure is unscientific, but I had a stack of about 6
- >bad diskettes out of a 50 diskette order.
-
- Yeah, I bought 50 of MEI's diskettes sometime last year and at least a
- dozen have given out in the meantime. Most annoyingly, they format
- fine in the Finder but after causing disk I/O problems while reading
- show bad sectors with Norton Utilities. Can anyone explain this to me??
-
- --Corey
-