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From: streib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Allan Streib)
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Subject: Re: floppy disk initialization problems
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.010404.15637@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 17 Apr 91 01:04:04 GMT
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In article <1991Apr16.083032.22987@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> streib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Allan Streib) writes:
>Whenever I attempt to initialize a floppy disk, either from the
>Workspace or from the command level, it fails.  Here is an example:

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>This happens with every disk I try.  Any suggestions?  I would suspect
>bad disks, but I got similar results on ten different disks, and they

Well, believe it or not, I had ten bad diskettes!  I went out today
and bought some 3M disks, and they worked like a charm.  BTW I have
*never* had a bad disk from 3M, which is something I cannot say about
any other major diskette brand.

I think the NeXT could be more robust in this area.  My old PC could
format a disk with bad sectors; it just didn't use them.  Seems that
the NeXT must have a perfect floppy or it'll puke it back out.

-Allan