Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!purdue!ccncsu!ncuug!miranda!jafo From: jafo@miranda.UUCP (Sean Reifschneider) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Wierd Disk problems Message-ID: Date: 19 Mar 91 10:42:45 GMT References: <238@nos850.UUCP> Organization: I'm not Organized Lines: 21 In article <238@nos850.UUCP> joem@nos850.UUCP (Joe Muller) writes: > 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 You've got to watch the discs that you get from MEI. Sometimes they are good quality, sometimes not. Usually the 3" discs I've gotten have been good (4 out of the last 50 failed). I noticed that for a while they had some different 5" DSHD, and none of them failed. I then got another batch with a different looking label in them, and 15 of 25 failed. The other 75 that I got only had about 5 failures. For a while they had the beige discs that matched the Amiga case, but they went back to blue when I got the order with the 5"ers failing. Sean -- From the desk of Sean Reifschneider. Isn't Amiga UUCP great? Thanks Matt. uunet.uu.net!ccncsu.colostate.edu!ncuug!miranda!jafo