🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <870287@hpcilzb.HP.COM> mark@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Mark Turner) writes:
>I've been having similar problems with my SE/30.  I think the
>"superdrive" is a piece of shit.  I've blown away several very expensive
>HD disks, and lost some important files doing it.  Yesterday it spewed
>out what _had_ been a perfectly good 800k disk.  The usual message is:
>"The file ...  could not be written and was skipped (disk error)."
>Once this happens, you might as well throw the disk away, because you'll
>never be able to format it again.  Even after I erased the disk with a
>demagnetizer, it still wouldn't format.
>

I've been having a lot of problems with my FDHD too. I've been using a IIGS
for about 2 1/2 years until I switched over to the SE/30 about 6 months ago.
A lot of my Apple II disks which I intended to reuse on the Mac became
unreadable. Certainly a great deal more than the normal attrition rate.
Everything seemed to die right away. I haven't got a single 3.5" disk
failure until that stage for that matter.

To be fair, a lot of my friends using the IIGS started to experience problems
with their disks too. And I think the problem is more because of the 
difference between DD and HD disk formatting rather than Apple and IBM
formats. The Mac also seemed to be a great deal more fuzzy about the
condition of the disks than the Apple II.