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From: sennett@s.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: !HELP! BAD DISKS ? (Drives on I
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Date: 10 Nov 89 17:40:37 GMT
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/* Written 10:40 am  Nov  8, 1989 by robin@sabre.uucp in s.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.amiga */
In article <89110701494798@masnet.uucp> mark.ji@canremote.uucp (MARK JI) writes:
>>Something is distinctly wrong with my A500.. Whenever i try to format a
>>new disk, the format procedure always starts up, when after formatting
>>the first track and trying to validate it, the computer tells me that
>>the disk is unreadable.. I know that the disks are not bad, they are

>I agree!  I have the same problem.  When I try the format command from the 
>Shell I get exactly the same problem.  I don't have the amigados manual, but 
>from the 1.3 Enhancements book that came with my A500 it looks like I am 
>typing the right command.  So far I haven't tried the "initialize" option
>from the workbench, but I would still like to know how its done from 
>the Shell.

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You may want to check your WB disk for viruses.
I had a problem similar to this a few months ago whenever I would try to
re-format disks.  It turned out that I had a virus on my boot disk! 
The format command on 1.3 must have some check for a standard boot 
block ... I may be wrong about this but the problem cleared up as soon
as I got rid of the virus.  

Mike Sennett
sennett@cs.uiuc.edu