Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!timbuk!cs.umn.edu!kksys!wd0gol!newave!john
From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: My !@#&*% IIci floppy drive...
Keywords: 1.4MB 3.5 mini floppy initialization failures
Message-ID: <512@newave.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 90 20:15:43 GMT
References: <32@ws7m.UUCP>
Reply-To: john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III)
Organization: NeWave Communications Ltd, Eden Prairie, MN
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In article <32@ws7m.UUCP> ws7m@ws7m.UUCP (Mark R. Holbrook) writes:
> 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...

I have had a fair number of Kodak disks refuse to format in both HD
and DD media.  I have also had the shutter fall off of the disk while
in the drive...not a fun thing to try to fix.  I have much better luck
with Maxell and Sony disks.

-john-

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