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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Can't Format a Floppy Disk!
Message-ID: <107@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 25 Dec 87 17:20:53 GMT
References: <101@mccc.UUCP> <2421@oxtrap.UUCP>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
Organization: Mercer College, Trenton, NJ
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In article <2421@oxtrap.UUCP> rich@oxtrap.UUCP (K. Richard Magill) writes:
>
>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.
>
I tried that, but the machine wouldn't write to the non-verified floppy.
Apparently, there is a mismatch between the magnetic properties of this
Fuji disk and the magnetic abilities of the 3B2/400 read/write head.

(Why are you telling me about dropping bits from your HD?  Did I miss
something?)

Happy Holidays.

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