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Article #40974Re: Have you checked your floppies lately?
From: jeff myers
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1989 03:48
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1989 03:48
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In article <28718@apple.Apple.COM>, chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes... >One of the things I did was re-initialize all my DiskFit backups. The scary >part was that out of about 60 floppies (three different sets of full backups >over two machines) three of them failed initialization -- there were three >bad floppies in my backups. I can relate, Chuq. I nearly got burned on three occasions, was able to restore the files that couldn't be read either from an offsite backup or original disk. I've since taken to religiously using the "Verify Writes" option under DiskFit. I've since caught one bad write, reinitialized the diskette on another Mac, and continued the backup. Jeff Myers@vms.macc.wisc.edu "procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday" -- Don Marquis, *certain maxims of archy*
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!ig!bionet!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!dogie!myers@vms.macc.wisc.edu From: myers@vms.macc.wisc.edu (jeff myers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Have you checked your floppies lately? Message-ID: <1560@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> Date: 16 Apr 89 03:48:07 GMT Sender: news@dogie.macc.wisc.edu Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center Lines: 20