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From: jww@sdcsvax.UUCP (Joel West)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Bad Disk Block Horror Story
Message-ID: <1290@sdcsvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Jan-86 11:14:17 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 10 11:14:17 1986
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In article <2492@amdahl.UUCP>, ems@amdahl.UUCP (ems) writes:
> I have discovered that sometimes the '... do you want to initialize...'
> message comes from sloppy insertion.  On my internal drive, I have
> gotten the error message, ejected the disk, put it back in; and
> all was fine again.
> 
> My conclusion?  Either my drive is modestly out of alignment
> or the fundamental design of the disks is slightly flakey.

I've had a lot of "do you want to initialize" problems, and most
are along the lines of ems's comments.  I always give a disk at
least a 2nd chance.