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From: mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: 3.5" Disk "Notcher" wanted
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Date: 27 Aug 89 18:29:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!mms00786    Aug 27 13:29:00 1989


I was burning holes in 69 cent 3.5" DD disks from MEI Micro Devices. Initially,
they all worked; as in formatted to 1.44M, and I stored a bunch of files on them.
Then, about two months later, I tried to read them off - well, crash and burn.
Could only recover half the files. I'll be reading them, and get the Data Error
reading Drive B error. So I assume that burning holes wasn't such a good idea.
It might have something to do with the fact that the files were written to them
from a IBM Model 70. Didn't those have some kind of problem with oil leaks in 
their drives?

Milan
mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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