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From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARPA
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Subject: 3.5" Disk reliability
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Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 23:46:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 25 23:46:00 1987
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I've now had (two) GS's for somewhat over a year (one of them not quite
that long) and I seem to have had many more disks with disk errors than
I ever had on the five year old II+, even counting for the higher
capacity.  Are the 3.5's inherently less reliable or is it just me?  It
doesn't seem to matter which machine (the kids use mostly one, me the
other, and both have come up with "bad disk block" errors much more
frequently (like five or so in the last year) than is really tolerable.
I don't yet have any 3.5 ProDos disk utility other than what comes the
machine, so all I can do is run the sysutil verify program that doesn't
give you much information.

No real temperature extremes in the house (air-conditioned in the
summer) and I don't think there are any great magnetic sources nearby.
(How close would a box of disks have to get to, say, a modem powersupply
transformer?  -- thats about all I can think of.)

TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARPA