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From: kurt@fluke.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hygiene for Disk Drives (or Dos Floss ?)
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Date: Mon, 30-Mar-87 12:23:34 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 30 12:23:34 1987
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OK guys, lets get real again.  The apple II puts what, 90K on a disk?  Or
maybe a whopping great 160K like the commodore 64?  On disks that were at
least possibly meant for the IBMPC which puts an incredible (-: 340K on a
disk.  (or is that double sided?)  On those huge 5 1/4" disks?  Those disks
had huge fat bits out there on the media.  On the Amiga you are talking about
800K formatted.  More tracks per inch, more bits per track.  You just can't
abuse an amiga disk like an apple II.  Nobody puts more data on a disk than
amiga.  You don't have the comfort of the same huge margins you had on the
apple II.  You are going to have to get used to some things, like buying
expensive brand name disks.  Like cleaning your drive if you use it all the
time.  Like having occasional failures from old disks.  Like having your
drive aligned every year or two.  These things are nothing new, and they
cannot be blamed (completely) on the DOS from Hell.  Welcome to the world of
professional-quality systems.  Welcome to the state of the art.  When you
push things to the limit, you have to be a little more careful.  You can't
cut corners as much as you are used to.