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From: mph@rover.UUCP (Mark Huth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard sector errors
Message-ID: <420@rover.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 20:05:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: rover.420
Posted: Thu Jul 16 20:05:22 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 18:39:07 EDT
References: <3249@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Reply-To: mph@rover.UUCP (Mark Huth)
Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division, Tempe, Az.
Lines: 15
Keywords: Hard errors, floppy drives
Summary: Old floppy drives eat disks

In my experience, a Workbench disk is only good for a couple of months before
it is worn out.  I hope that the problem is the old, washing machine style of
drive.  My drive 0 eats a disk a month, and the errors are nearly always
permanent.  Opening the shutter and examining the disk shows a neat ditch
worn into the surface of the medium.  I hope that when I get money for a
change, that this problem will be cured.  Until then, I keep several kickstarts
and workbenches on hand.

The only real cure is a hard disk.  Makes an incredible difference.  I went
from hating the machine to really liking it when I got my hard drive to work.
In fact, I now loathe going to work on #%$^Un*x which is the best that 
Motorola has to offer.  Oh well, they pay better than the Amiga business.

Mark Huth
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