Re: DEATH to floppies!!!!!!

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From: Dave Beeman
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:05

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In article <1993Jan27.195810.8919@ico.isc.com>, timhu@ico.isc.com (Timothy Hu) writes:
|> In article <1993Jan27.063559.71696@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> ry01@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ROBERT YUNG) writes:
|> >I've had it! I'm always getting bad sectors on my 1.44 disk! They format fine,
|> >but when I put stuff on them, I'm screwed! I've tried name brand disks and even
|> >they can go BAD! IS there an alternative?
|> 
|> I haven't had a bad floppy in over three years. I suspect that something
|> is wrong with your drive. When was the last time you cleaned it?

I've seen a couple of cases like this where the problem was a bad controller
card.  You might see if you can find someone who will let you swap drives
and controllers as an experiment before you blame one or the other.

Dave Beeman

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