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From: straka@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Straka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: disk checker request
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Date: Tue, 22-Sep-87 11:31:21 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 22 11:31:21 1987
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References: <165@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <2404@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
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Keywords: disk, checker

In article <2404@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> dyckman@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Howard L. Dyckman) writes:
>Does anyone know how disk mfrs check their disks?

Manufacturers (and copying services) use special-purpose (and automated)
disk certifiers.  The good disks get dropped into one bin; the bad into
the other(s).  You need a lot of volume to afford one of these toys!
-- 
Rich Straka     ihnp4!ihlpf!straka

Advice for the day: "MSDOS - just say no."