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From: joem@nos850.UUCP (Joe Muller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Wierd Disk problems
Keywords: Don't need no stinkin' keywords!
Message-ID: <238@nos850.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 91 04:43:19 GMT
Organization: US Naval Ordnance Station  Louisville, KY
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  Lately I have been having some problems with floppy disks such that I
am wondering if I should be worried about them.  Just yesterday, I tried
formatting 5 (five!) 3.5 disks I got from MEI for $.39 and not one of them
formatted correctly due to a bad sector error.  I attempted to format them both
on my 2500's internal drive and my AEHD drive.  All five would kick out
on the same track on each drive.   Of course I thought it was the disks
immediately, but since my old 500 was laying around I tried formatting them
on its drive and still they had the same bad sectors.  I was still a bit
suspicious thou, because in all my dealings with MEI I've never gotten
a single bad disk (much less five in a row!) so I ran Bformat 2.0 on a few
of them to allocate the bad sectors and make them usable.  Now it gets wierd.
The first disk it allocated the bad sector, but when I tried to copy to it I got
a R/W error. F**K! I tried formatting it again from WB and this time 
it formatted FINE! I was able to copy to and from the entire disk without
a hitch! Argh!  So then I Bformatted another 'Bad' disk and the damn thing
didn't-even-recognize any bad sectors! So I tried writing to it and I got
another damn R/W error!  Is my computer screwed or what ?  At one time
I used to have a problem with a virus known as 'Lamer' but I am sure it
didn't infect my HD and ever since I have been running VirusX from startup.
Can someone please offer some help.

 -Joe

P.S.  I was just able to format a box of 5 brand name (Opus) disks perfectly.


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