Floppy disks on Compaq computers

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From: Ken K. Lambach
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1990 16:10

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A friend of mine is having trouble at work with floppy disks which are
formatted and written to by Compaq 286 computers (I don't know model
numbers or age of the PCs).  These disks work fine on the Compaq
computers but will (apparently at random) lose all data when the disk
is written to by a non-Compaq computer.  Has anyone else had this problem ?

I seem to recall a discussion a while back about Compaq using their own
disk controller, but I didn't really read the articles.  Could this be the
problem ?  Could someone email me the articles pertaining to the Compaq
disk controller ?

Sorry if this is a repeatedly asked question.  Thanks in advance  for 
any information.

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From: kenl@telxon.UUCP (Ken K. Lambach)
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Subject: Floppy disks on Compaq computers
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Date: 18 Feb 90 16:10:40 GMT
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