Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!scs!spl1!laidbak!att!ihnp4!cbmvax!sterling From: sterling@cbmvax.UUCP (Rick Sterling QA) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A plea for bad block handling in the file system. Message-ID: <3918@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 2 Jun 88 14:00:08 GMT Article-I.D.: cbmvax.3918 References: <2009@sugar.UUCP> <7144@swan.ulowell.edu> <2026@sugar.UUCP> <2762@umd5.umd.edu> <2070@sugar.UUCP> Reply-To: sterling@cbmvax.UUCP (Rick Sterling QA) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 22 In article <2070@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: > In article <2762@umd5.umd.edu>, louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes: > > > I can't understand why everyone seems to have problems with floppy disks. > > Between my A1000 that I had for 2.5 years (since day 0), and the A2000 > > I've had since then, I've only had 2 or 3 disks ever crap out on me out of > > literally hundreds. Maybe I just live right or something. > > You're just lucky, I guess. It might be instructive to compare what brand of floppies you folks are using... I've found that the high quality ( expen$ive ) DSDD types seem to be nearly indistructable... where the bargain basement 'no-name' ones yeild about ~20% failure rate. ============================================================================= Rick Sterling COMMODORE AMIGA TEST ENGINEERING // /_ |\/||/_ /_ UUCP ...{allegra,ihnp4,rutgers}!cbmvax!sterling \X/ / \| ||\// \ PHONE 215-431-9275 ============================================================================= Everybody likes hard work ... especially when THEY'RE paying for it. =============================================================================