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Article #40653Re: Have you checked your floppies lately?
From: Sho Kuwamoto
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1989 05:01
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1989 05:01
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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. My disks die at an even greater rate. I would guess about 1 out of 10 per year, if not more. I'm using 3M disks, but I don't think that is the problem. I think the problem is that... (drum roll) I smoke. Oh well, another reason to quit. I'm not sure if the disks are getting damaged, or if the drive itself is being trashed. (hope not.) -Sho
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!j.cc.purdue.edu!pur-ee!pur-phy!sho From: sho@pur-phy (Sho Kuwamoto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Have you checked your floppies lately? Message-ID: <2128@pur-phy> Date: 11 Apr 89 05:01:05 GMT References: <28718@apple.Apple.COM> Reply-To: sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto) Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN Lines: 17