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From: jwi@lzfme.att.com (J.WINER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: WARNING: Counterfeit 3.5 HD disks!
Summary: Don't buy disks from Lyben
Message-ID: <1588@lzfme.att.com>
Date: 28 Aug 89 14:04:40 GMT
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| Bruce Waldman writes:
| I just purchased and received two boxes of *bulk 3.5 hd disks*
| from Lyben Computer Systems, Troy, Michigan.  At the incredibly
| ...
|               8 of the disks would not format at all! 
|               6 of the disks would format only with many bad sectors.
|               of the remaining 6, 5 immediately showed cross-linked
| ...
| My CONCLUSION|||Lyben has somehow gotten hold of low-density media,
| and inserted them in cases marked high-density.  This is truly low!!!
| Any suggestions?

I have had problems of 14% bad disks received from Lyben in 720K
3.5". I don't buy disks from Lyben anymore. Their prices on other
computer accessories are good, but I generally avoid them now.

Jim Winer -- Those persons who advocate censorship offend my religion.

Upuaut:	a wolf-headed Egyptian deity | Voodoo: the art of sticking ideas
	assigned as Guidance System  |         into people and watching
	for the Barque of Ra.        |         them bleed.

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