Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cadre!pitt!cisunx!ejkst From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A plea for bad block handling in the file system. Message-ID: <10204@cisunx.UUCP> Date: 6 Jun 88 00:51:13 GMT References: <2009@sugar.UUCP> <7144@swan.ulowell.edu> <2026@sugar.UUCP> <2762@umd5.umd.edu> <2070@sugar.UUCP> <3918@cbmvax.UUCP> Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy) Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys Lines: 16 In article <3918@cbmvax.UUCP> sterling@cbmvax.UUCP (Rick Sterling QA) writes: > It might be instructive to compare what brand of floppies you folks are > using... I use "Bargain basement" floppies from MEI/Micro or Direct Micro ($.99 and $1.19 in bulk, respectively, I think.) I would estimate a failure rate of <4%. I have had much worse luck with more expensive disks. (this is out of a total inventory of about 250 disks, 2/3 of which are the cheap ones.) -- ------------ Eric Kennedy ejkst@cisunx.UUCP