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From: draper@buster.cps.msu.edu (Patrick J Draper)
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Subject: Re: MEI disks: final words
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Date: 7 Nov 90 07:00:58 GMT
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In article <7012@hub.ucsb.edu> 6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (William Bushing) writes:
>One more note regarding MEI disks.
>
>I had the opportunity to format the rest of the 5.25" HD and
>3.5" DD diskettes I purchased from MEI. The results were as
>follows:
>
>      5.25" HD       3 out of 25 bad  = 12%
>      5.25" HD       9 out of 25 bad  = 36%
>      3.5 " DD       8 out of 25 bad  = 32%
>



Sorry, I guess those aren't quite the final words :-)

Anyway, I've just formatted a bunch of DS/DD MEI diskettes (3.5"
generic) and I've had no errors at all.

I suggest that my tests are more rigorous than yours because I formatted
all to 1.44 megabytes, not the 720k they are rated for. I've also run
most of them through fastback and norton's backup as another test (of
different 1.44M formats) and those programs, known to be picky about
diskettes, did not reject any of them, except for one, which DID work
with those programs at the lower normal capacity of 720K.

Perhaps they've just had bad luck with a few batches, and now they're on
track again. I hope so because I will continue to buy.

Please, nobody flame me for backing up my data on 1.44M formatted DS/DD
diskettes. I know the chance of losing data is greater than winning the
lottery. Probably by a large amount.


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