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From: rich@oxtrap.UUCP (K. Richard Magill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Can't Format a Floppy Disk!
Message-ID: <2421@oxtrap.UUCP>
Date: 24 Dec 87 04:13:19 GMT
References: <101@mccc.UUCP>
Reply-To: rich@oxtrap.UUCP (K. Richard Magill)
Organization: Oxford, Ann Arbor
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In article <101@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg) writes:
>Whenever I try to format a floppy disk on my 3B2/400, I get a verify
>error, usually on track 0, side 0.  the HOTLINE suggested changing NPROC
>in steps of 38, starting at the default 60.  NPROC = 136 let me format
>an AT&T floppy, but nothing I've tried lets me format a Fuji "MD2HD"
>(double sided/high density/double track 96 tpi).
>
>The Fuji formats nicely on a 7300, but that's much lower density.
>
>Any ideas?  Thanks.

Yeah.  Don't verify.  I had the same problem on 3b2/300's about 2
years ago.  The real killer is that you hard drive will start dropping
bits eventually.  I found that by running sum's from crontab at night
on /bin, /usr/bin, /etc, etc.  that we dropped about 1 bit per month.
The company I worked for at the time had about 25 in the field and a
field complaint of "worked yesterday, dumps core today" lead me
looking for missing bits.  In other words, I don't believe that the
machine is question was atypical.




filler.