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From: robin@sabre.uucp (Robin D. Wilson/1000000)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Formatting 3.5" Floppies
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Date: 9 Nov 89 20:27:27 GMT
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In article <3730@nigel.udel.EDU> jones@eglin.af.mil (Calvin Jones, III) writes:
>> mark.ji@canremote.uucp (MARK JI) writes:
>> >new disk, the format procedure always starts up, when after formatting
>> >the first track and trying to validate it, the computer tells me that
>> I agree!  I have the same problem.  When I try the format command from the 
> 
>   FORMAT DRIVE DF1: NAME EMPTY


This is the command that I was using.  I should also add that I have now tried
it from the workbench, and it does work fine??!!  The actual problem I have 
(after re-reading the orginal post [see above]) is a little different than
Mark's problem.  The format begins, and goes formating.. vering.. etc. all 
the way through to about track 7x.  Somewhere in the seventies it usually dies
with a bad sector message.  The same disk then works fine for a diskcopy, or
"Initialze" from the workbench.  (These are Kodak DSDD diskette, and I assume
they are OK, because they work fine aside from the funny format probs.)


Oh, I almost forgot - the sector that the disks die on varies from one try
to another, and from one disk to another (ie.  the same disk will die on 
different tracks on successive tries to format.)

Thanks for the help, in advance.  (If you want to e-mail me, I think I have
the address correct down below -- don't use the Reply-To: line because it will
likely be mucked-up.)

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