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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: floppy disk questions
Message-ID: <478@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 16 Apr 91 18:03:38 GMT
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Allan Streib writes
> 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?

My 'station won't format (or read) DOS disks either.  I thought I was
doing something wrong until I tried it on my DIT floppy drive connected
to a cube, which worked just fine.

I've seen several messages saying the same thing.  I think there's a
software or firmware problem.

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