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From: lazear@gateway.mitre.ORG
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Subject: Re: Disk R/W Problems - Causes?
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Date: Tue, 17-Nov-87 14:40:34 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 17 14:40:34 1987
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I bought a second hand drive and set it on the TV cart (big 19" color job)
to test it.  It worked sporadically, and I thought it was a piece of junk.
Sometimes it would format a disk, sometimes not.  Sometimes it couldn't
read its own writing!  It was a foot below the bottom of the TV, so I
didn't think about magnetic effects.  But when I moved the drive to a shelf
over the 800 (with my original drive), it worked like a charm and has for
about 2-3 years.  On the shelf it was about two feet from the TV.  Amazing
what a little distance can make!

	Walt Lazear