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From: snow@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: MEI disks
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.223805.106@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 91 03:38:04 GMT
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In article <16619@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>, cs161fhn@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou) writes:
> 
> How are MEI disks these days?
> 
> I remember a couple months ago, many netters were complaining of a
> rash of poor quality from them, but someone said that this
> was because they switched to a new supplier/manufacturer and that
> the problem was temporary.
> 
> Who do you net.people buy from nowadays?

I still buy from MEI.  A couple of weeks ago, I received 100 DSDD (360K) and
100 DSHD (1.2M) 5.25" disks from them.  I've formatted about half of the
double-density disks with no problems yet (and I've been formatting them out
to 80 tracks at 10 sectors per side.)  I've formatted all of the high-density
disks, and I found 57 out of 100 to be defective.  All 8 packs of disks (they
came in packs of 25) contained little cards saying "MADE IN CHINA," so it
appears that any problem they may have been having with the DD disks has been
solved, while the HD disks are still as bad as ever.

-ken