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From: Randy.Shaw@p1.f555.n161.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Randy Shaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Unusable Floppy Diskettes
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Date: 28 Jan 91 15:02:00 GMT
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> From: smithc@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (Christopher A. Smith)
> Date: 23 Jan 91 02:04:16 GMT
> Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN
> Message-ID: <1991Jan23.020416.28411@acc.stolaf.edu>
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> 
> I've been encountering a very frustrating problem on my Mac SE 
> recently, and I can't quite figure out what is causing it.  In the 
> past couple of days I've come across about ten disks that have 
> something like bad sectors on them.  I did try to reformat them, 
> since I needed the blank disks and the files were of no use to me 
> anymore, but after several attempts at each the computer rejected 
> each disk, saying "Initialization failed!"  In the past year or so 
> I've lost about 20 to 30 disks to this menace.
> 
> What exactly would be responsible for so many floppies being 
> destroyed?

In the case of my SE, it was simply that the drive needed cleaning, and 
lubrication at some strategic points. I do not neccessarily recommend you do 
the work yourself. But, I was having the identical problem to you, and it 
finally got so bad that I would get a 70% failure rate when initializing new 
disks. Now, my drive works flawlessly every time in the 4 months since I 
worked on the drive.


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