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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Raaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Message-ID: <302@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 20 Aug 90 13:29:18 GMT
References: <03904.AA03904@sosaria.imp.com>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <03904.AA03904@sosaria.imp.com> wizard@sosaria.imp.com (Chris Brand) writes:
>  re-format the drive.  But this time, something was different - I
>had read errors on the drive.  Formatting stopped just saying that an error
>occured.

I can't be too sure, but this all is not necessarily  a fault of the Amiga.
I had similar experiences with an Epson HD-720. After big difficulties of
formatting it (needed some attempts), it seemed to work. But then I copied
my workbench several times to it and got errors. I did several passes by
marking these new blocks as bad during low-level format and again the
whole sequence, played a whole week (only evenings) with it. But couldn't
get it to run reliably. Then I had the chance to replace it by another
sample of the same brand, and voila, this works flawlessly until today.
So the morale of the story: At least SOMETIMES, also the drive itself
can be defective!

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