strange problem with DSDD floppies: they won't stay formatted

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From: Shankar Subramanian
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 1990 15:52

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I'm stuck with a hundred DSDD unbranded 5.25 inch floppies that I bought two
years ago.  Now a week or so after I format them and put data on
them the files disappear and the floppies appear unformatted.  At
this stage, the error message 'track 0 unusable or bad" often
appears when one tries to reformat them, but positioning the hole in the
floppy correctly and then formatting them works, but only for about
a week after which the floppies are again useless.  I'm curious why
this should be happening and would like to know how to avoid this problem
in the future.

thanks

shankar subramanian
dept of economics
uc san diego.
ssubrama@weber.ucsd.edu

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