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Ever since upgrading my A5000 to RO 3.1, I've had an annoying problem: a
surfeit of disc errors when transfering discs between computers.

It started like this:
I format a disc to 1.4Mb PC format on the A5000, then take it into Uni
and use a PC to write to it. When I get home I find that trying to read
or verify the disc reports a large number of disc errors.

So far, I thought this was probably a problem with the PCs (though I was
using several different PCs, and only one Arc) or, at worst, with DOSFS.
It only happened occaisionally (about one in every four or five discs),
so I decided to live with it.

However, over Christmas, I took an E format disc home to use on my
parents A3000, having dumped my current work onto it. When I tried to
use this on the A3000, I got a disc error reported. Verifying the disc
revealed two "bad sectors". Later verifying the same disc on my A5000
reported it to be fine.

Now, I've never had any problems reading and writing stuff if I didn't
use another computer, so I assumed the disc drive must be misaligned
(slightly). This seemed strange, because I'd expect the whole disc to
then be unreadable to another computer, but still. I also assumed that
the drive had been in someway knocked when the shop had fitted RO3.1,
and this explained it.

So I took the computer in for repair immediately after Christmas. The
shop has (finally) reported back to say they can find nothing wrong with
it. Which leaves me puzzled - why am I experiencing a large number of
disc errors, when swapping discs with other computers, since having
RO3.1 installed?

Anyone got any ideas? Anyone experiencing similar problems?

Thanks for any help.

Steffan.

P.S. In the majority of cases, the errors occured with first time
formatted branded discs. They didn't all occur on one particular batch
of discs. And I didn't format any double density discs to high density.