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From: ccplumb@rose.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Is this odd?
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Date: 11 Dec 89 21:12:06 GMT
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In article <89343.132335UH2@PSUVM.BITNET> UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes:
>I have a floppy that works fine in df0:, but is df1:BAD in df1:  I made...

This is a sign of something with one of the drives being out of whack.
It may be rotational speed, and that's easy to check, but could also
be head alignment, and that needs a repair shop.  (To be precise,
an alignment floppy and an oscilliscope.)

In article <14087@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.UUCP (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
>Try checking your rotational speed.  Marauder II (if you have a copy)
>will do it.  If your two drives have sufficiently different rotational
>speeds, a floppy created on one might not work on the other.  Make sure
>you format new floppies on the drive that has the SLOWER rotational
>speed.

You've been playing with IBM disk formats too long!  On the Amiga, this
doesn't matter, as it does the equivalent of a format on every track
as it's written.  There's a utility caled xcopy (nothing to do with the
1.3 default alias) that gives some useful information about the errors
it finds.  There are probably others.
--
	-Colin