Bad Floppy Drive?

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From: dnewman
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1990 08:17

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Help!

The Sequence: 1) Insert Floppy.  2) See Dialog indicating the floppy is
unreadable. 3) Cancel 4) Start MacTools.  5) Insert purportedly bad floppy.
6) Floppy comes up, but is listed as locked, even though the tab is in the
unprotected position. 7) Quit MacTools 8) Observe that the floppy comes up 
OK in the finder now, but is still listed as locked.

What Gives? This has happened to me several times now. Is my floppy drive
going south on me?  Any advice on how I can recover these disks?  I can copy
the data off them after the above procedure, but I'd really like to know
what is going on.

Thanks for any information,

>>Dave

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From: dnewman@ut-emx.UUCP (dnewman)
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Subject: Bad Floppy Drive?
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Date: 12 Jan 90 08:17:40 GMT
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Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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