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From: ems@amdahl.UUCP (E. Michael Smith)
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Subject: Re: Bad Mac disk: what to do?
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Date: Mon, 28-Jan-85 16:58:33 EST
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> [...]
> 
> What does (can) one do about bad Mac disks?
> 
> One particular disk always gets the message "This is not a Macintosh
> disk" (not "unreadable"), and when I OK initialization, the Mac does
> a litlle something and then spits it out with the message
> "Initialization failed." 
> 
> Is this a hardware failure, tracking failure, or what?  I'm not hard
> up for the disk, but I'd like to salvage it if possible.

I tended to experience this effect semi randomly.  It was always
in the external drive.  It stopped when I moved the drive to sit
on the right side of Mac rather than on the top.  Mag fields?

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