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From: maschler@sonia.math.ucla.edu
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Subject: Diskettes damage under 286.
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Date: 30 Jun 90 13:34:53 GMT
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In 588062 Rick Engelhardt wirtes:         
"We are experiencing an unusually high number of problems with diskette
damage in conjunction with the use of IBM model 30-286s...."
I would like to report that I am having the same problem in conjunction
with my Compaq SLT286. Quite often the diskettes become unreadable.
Sometimes they become readable again after a few hours!!!
Formatting the diskette again solves the problem, but, of course, data is
lost.

I shall appreciate it very much if anyone can suggest what is the source
of the problem. I tried to format the diskettes by several methods
(DOS, NORTNON, PCTOOLS) but nothing proved reliable.
Michael Maschler