"Squealing" Diskettes -- Should they be trashed?

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From: malcolm
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1989 02:53

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Thanks for taking the time to read my posting.

I have some 3.5" diskettes that emit a small 
"squeling" or "whining" sound whenever the
disk is being spun around while in the disk 
drive.

The diskettes are Sony DS/DD and they have never
caused me any trouble in terms of lost data.  But
does this squeling sound perhaps indicate that the
diskette may fail sometime in the future?  Would it
be best to err on the safe side and not use these
"noisy" diskettes?

Please e-mail your comments if you can.  I'll post 
a summary if I get a large enough response.

Thanks again.

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