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From: c60a-cz@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Donald Burr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: My !@#&*% IIci floppy drive...
Keywords: 1.4MB 3.5 mini floppy initialization failures
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Date: 13 Nov 90 08:16:32 GMT
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In article <32@ws7m.UUCP> ws7m@ws7m.UUCP (Mark R. Holbrook) writes:
>Arrrrgh!  Yet another initialization failure...  Has anybody experienced
>problems with the super drives and formatting floppies?  I have also had
>trouble with floppies just "going bad..."   Today I watched my client try
>to format 3 BRAND NEW Kodak HD floppies in his 4 month old IIcx and each
>one was ejected with initialization or format failed messages...
>
>My IIci is just less than a year old and it has many of the same problems.
>
>Do these drives just need regular alignment?
>
>Email me if you have any wonderful insights!  Or... if you would just
>like to bitch about your own superdrive problems...


I dunno... I've had mine for 2 months or so, and everything's working fine.
It'll format both 400/800k and 1.4M floppies, both brand-spanking new
and ancient REALLY OLD ones (the ones with about 7-8 disk labels piled up
on top of each other, scratching-out and rewriting of disk titles, etc.)

It could be that your drives need to be cleaned.  Try getting a disk cleaning
kit and using it, and find out what happens.
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