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From: johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: FDHD problem?
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Date: 15 Jan 90 10:38:32 GMT
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Nf-From: uxh.cso.uiuc.edu!johnsone    Jan 14 19:40:00 1990


/* Written  1:31 am  Jan 14, 1990 by david@jc3b21.UUCP*/

 > 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 !!

I've had the same problem with the FHDH and did try using Copy II to fix it
with no luck.  I have had three or four disks not work in the last 4 weeks.
At first I passed it off as poor disks, but perhaps Apple did make a mistake
in design.

					 Erik A. Johnson
					 Grad Student, Aero/Astro Engineering
					 University of Illinois
					 johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu