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
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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.

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