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From: ftdkl@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (LaSota Daniel K)
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 22:52:02 GMT
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In article <8836@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, c60a-cz@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Donald Burr) writes...
>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...
> 
> 
Yes I have had these problems too.
At this time I can only trust data on floppies for sneakerNet transfers.
I suspect my drive because a disk will often fail on my ci at home but will
format or be read perfectly on another Mac at work.


Dan LaSota
ftdkl@acad3.fai.alaska.edu