Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!noao!mcdsun!fnf
From: fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Is there a new virus?
Message-ID: <620@mcdsun.UUCP>
Date: 26 Dec 87 22:53:34 GMT
References: <522@io.UUCP> <20491@linus.UUCP>
Reply-To: fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish)
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Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division
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In article <20491@linus.UUCP> sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk) writes:
>Hmmm, I have just encountered *exactly* the same symptoms, immediately
>after having accessed a new batch of Fred Fish disks (# 111 - 118).
>In fact, disk # 111 went completely bad, also around tracks 40-41!
>Fred, if you're out there somewhere, have you noticed any problems
>with these disks?

It has been about 3 weeks now since these disks were released, with
probably several thousand copies in circulation by now.  I have not seen
any problems with scribbled disks, other than the typical random few
that always seem to end up unreadable on delivery (typically about 1%
or less).  As a side note, I have noticed a slight increase in the number
of bad floppies I have acquired over the last year.  I generally use only
bulk Sony DSDD, an lately have found a couple of disks in each batch of
400 or so, that could not be formatted on either my Amiga or my Mac.
I was led to believe that there was no difference in the quality of the
bulk disks over the individually packaged quantity 10 boxes, but now
I'm not so sure.

-Fred
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