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From: fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Is this odd?
Message-ID: <814@jc3b21.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 89 19:57:55 GMT
References: <38586@lanl.gov>
Organization: St. Petersburg Jr. College, FL
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From article <38586@lanl.gov>, by tjf@lanl.gov (Tom J Farish):
> 
> How bout this one?  When I get a bad (unformatable) disk
> I just pop it into a mac at work and format it.  Sometimes
> it formats, sometimes not.  But when I take it back home....
> it formats in the Ami!  I've had most trouble with disks 
> chomped on by AMAX getting a bad sector.  Shove 'em into
> the Mac...that'l teach 'em.

     A trick that I've used successfully with disks that wouldn't format
clean is to pass them over a bulk tape eraser.  That seems to erase more
from the disk than the format command does.  I guess the disk drive doesn't
have nearly as high a level as the bulk eraser.

--Fabbian Dufoe
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  St. Petersburg, Florida  33705
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