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From: dlarson@blake.u.washington.edu (Dale Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re-formatting Bad?
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Date: 30 Sep 90 13:25:09 GMT
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I just finished going through a bunch of disks full of obsolete stuff and
re-formatting a dozen of them.  4 failed (a sony, a maxell and two of
whatever WP releases upgrades on).  I tried formatting most of the failures
again, none would.  I've also had a couple of disks fail while using them
(though only for back up) and those disks had been reformatted.  I am
using my A3000.

Question:  Is there any reason that reformatting these disks might cause
problems?

Question:  Isn't this a ridiculously high error rate?

Question:  Could my df0: be borderline in need of repair?

Question (long shot):  Could there possibly be anything about my A3000
or 2.0 which would cause a higher error rate without my machine
being in trouble?
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-Dale Larson  (dlarson@blake.u.washington.edu)