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From: fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Close Call (Supra hard drive)
Message-ID: <339@mcdsun.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 11:50:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: mcdsun.339
Posted: Thu Jul 16 11:50:37 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 13:58:46 EDT
References: <1385@crash.CTS.COM> <2122@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division
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Keywords: Amiga hard disk Supra horror story

In article <2122@cbmvax.UUCP> higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom SALES) writes:
>Ya know, some people complain about the poor performance of AmigaDOS,
>but ask yourself something - have you ever lost a disk because of
>the DOS?  In my experience it has ALWAYS been media failure, or
>copy protection failure.

I suspect this is going to generate *lots* of heat and flames!  The DOS
seems to be absolutely the most fragile part of an otherwise nicely
engineered system (aside from lack of an MMU which is probably my number
one gripe).  I have never lost a single floppy to a media failure, after
it passed format and verified, though I've run into a few that wouldn't
format (far less than 1%).  But then I always use top grade DSDD floppies.
I have lost a couple that could be attributed to copy protection.  But
I've lost count of the number of floppies that have bit the dust because
the system guru'd while a write to the floppy was in progress.  I've
also had to completely reformat and reload my hard disk several times
because of the same problem.  Because I am probably more paranoid than
most people about the filesystem reliability, I've backed up my stuff
religiously and have not yet lost anything really important.

-Fred
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