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From: david@jc3b21.UUCP (David Quarles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FDHD problem?
Message-ID: <829@jc3b21.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 90 07:31:37 GMT
References: <870287@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Organization: St. Petersburg Jr. College, FL
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> I've blown away several very expensive
> HD disks, and lost some important files doing it.  Yesterday it spewed
> out what _had_ been a perfectly good 800k disk.  The usual message is:
> "The file ...  could not be written and was skipped (disk error)."
> Once this happens, you might as well throw the disk away, because you'll
> never be able to format it again.  Even after I erased the disk with a
> demagnetizer, it still wouldn't format.

  I've been using an SE/30 with the FDHD and have experienced a
  different problem --> once in a while (great while) it cannot read a
  floppy and asks if I want to format it (it says it is unreadable). 
  Knowing better, I take the floppy out and tap it on one side then the
  other, pop it back in and the FDHD will read it ... weird.
 
  Another point --> don't toss that un-formattable floppy away yet.  I
  have had a floppy not format normally (a message tells me it failed to
  format.  When this happens I take our my Central Point Software's Copy
  II Mac (noone should be without it), and use the format option there. 
  This usually cures it !!

> The only good thing I can say about the "superdrive" is that it reads PC
> disks okay.  In their zeal to appeal to the PC market, Apple's engineers
> designed a drive that's more compatible with IBM than Macintosh.

  I think there is more than that.

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