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From: erd@duke.cs.duke.edu (Ed Darken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: My !@#&*% IIci floppy drive...
Keywords: 1.4MB 3.5 mini floppy initialization failures
Message-ID: <658594387@lear.cs.duke.edu>
Date: 14 Nov 90 14:53:09 GMT
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Organization: Duke University Computer Science Dept.; Durham, N.C.
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I spent yesterday afternoon formatting high density disks on a
Mac IIci (geez, it's SLOW), and I encountered a surprising
number of initialization failures. What's interesting is that
each time I immediately re-inserted the same disk and retried
the initialization, and it succeeded! Every time! Hmmm...