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From: joe@lakesys.UUCP (Joe Pantuso)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Professional Page 1.2 is out
Message-ID: <741@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jun 89 22:27:31 GMT
References: <20116@sunb.UUCP> <735@lakesys.UUCP> <6597@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Reply-To: joe@lakesys.UUCP (Joe Pantuso)
Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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In article <6597@cs.Buffalo.EDU> jmpiazza@sunybcs.UUCP (Joseph M. Piazza) writes:
>In article <735@lakesys.UUCP> joe@lakesys.UUCP (Joe Pantuso) writes:
>>By the way....  MEI Micro is selling disks for *69* cents each in lots of
>>25, and they are GOOD disks, I have had fewer failures with their disks than
>>with Fuji or Sony's....
>	I really don't understand this.  I always read about somebody on the
>net who claim that they  n e v e r  had a problem with el-cheapo disks, and
>yet when I try one -- or those that don't know better try one -- disaster city.
	(stuff about cruddy disks including v*rb*t*m (which I hate myself))
>	Granted, Joe does say "fewer failures" but I fail to see how.  Maybe
>he was just born lucky.  :-)
>	joe piazza

Hmm maybe I was....

I just ordered another 200 from them....I intend to format a hundred of them
as soon as I receive them and I'll let everyone know the failure rate.

A question that comes to mind from this discussion:
I recieved some ds/hd (pc type) disks courtesy of Adobe a few months back
and I attempted to format and use them, out of six disks only ONE of them  
worked.  Is there really that much of a physical difference between dd and hd
disks?  I was under the impression that disk material was fairly virgin when
you recieve it and that all disks are made the same way--just some pass more
rigourous(sp) test than others and are sold as hd.  

Am I mistaken?

JP




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