Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bronze!copper!kiran From: kiran@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) Subject: Re: Hi Density Disks -- high failure rate Message-ID: Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University References: <1991Apr3.003702.14936@hawk.cs.ukans.edu> <1991Apr3.041443.12295@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <1991Apr3.182729.29723@hawk.cs.ukans.edu> Date: 4 Apr 91 10:22:06 GMT Lines: 13 I've noticed that many of my HD disks cannot be successfully reformatted. So instead of erasing them with the menu command, i select all & then drag to the trash (or more likely, erase with DiskTop, which simply clears the directory...) I never reformat a floppy (either kind) any more. -- ...kiran __________kiran@copper.ucs.indiana.edu________(812) 331-1710 From the corrections column in a July Fresno, CA _Bee_: "An item in Thursday's [issue] about the Massachusetts budget crisis made reference to new taxes that will help put Massachusetts 'back in the African-American.' The item should have said 'back in the black.'"