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From: streib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Allan Streib)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: floppy disk questions
Summary: bad drive at fault???
Message-ID: <1991Apr14.103914.4986@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 14 Apr 91 10:39:14 GMT
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In article <1991Apr13.230656.6140@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> streib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Allan Streib) writes:
>
>Maybe I just have a bunch of bad disks, but when I try to format from
>the Workspace it always chokes, saying the disk is unusable. These are
>720 KB disks.

Now I'm beginning to think I have a bad drive.  I haven't gotten it to
sucessfully initialize any disk, including the 2.88MB floppy that came
with the system.  Has anyone had any trouble with the Sony internal
drives that ship with the NeXTstation?

-Allan