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Article #3671Re: strange problem with DSDD floppies: they won't stay formatted
From: Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 1990 23:14
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 1990 23:14
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In article <3801@network.ucsd.edu>, ssubrama@weber.ucsd.edu (Shankar Subramanian) writes: > 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, [...] Have you cleaned the heads of your disk drive recently? Head cleaning kits are about $10 as I recall, and last a long long time. If you're lucky, that's the whole problem. How old is your disk drive? My A: drive went after about two years. It would have cost about $70 to realign the heads and it cosst $90 to buy a new one. Guess which I did. Does this problem happen with a good brand of diskette? If not, maybe the oxide is coming off your cheapo floppies. (I've never heard of such a thing, but who knows?) The above is my own opinion and not attributable to any other person or organization. email: browns@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. (216) 371-0043
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!abvax!iccgcc!browns From: browns@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: strange problem with DSDD floppies: they won't stay formatted Message-ID: <1288.270b7bf7@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> Date: 4 Oct 90 23:14:14 GMT References: <3801@network.ucsd.edu> Distribution: usa Lines: 22