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Article #26769Floppy Disk Damage Diagnosis? (Help needed)
From: A. E. Siegman
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1988 18:24
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1988 18:24
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Have been getting intermittent "unreadable" floppies -- several suspected causes, none repeatable or definite. I can recover the files with MacZap, but are there any ways to diagnose the CAUSE of the damage, from examining the directory or boot blocks or whatever of the damaged diskette? -------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att-cb!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!SIERRA.STANFORD.EDU!SIEGMAN From: SIEGMAN@SIERRA.STANFORD.EDU (A. E. Siegman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Floppy Disk Damage Diagnosis? (Help needed) Message-ID: <12385456468.9.SIEGMAN@Sierra.Stanford.EDU> Date: 26 Mar 88 18:24:22 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 5