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From: cm450s02@uhccux.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sony floppys:  The emperor's new clothes
Message-ID: <1445@uhccux.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jan 88 05:40:03 GMT
References: <2362@crash.cts.com> <4382@garfield.UUCP>
Reply-To: cm450s02@uhccux.UUCP (Jeff T. Segawa)
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Posted: Sat Jan 16 00:40:03 1988

In article <4382@garfield.UUCP> john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell) writes:
>I'm also amazed by how poor Dysan disks are, especially since many profs only
>allow students to use selected brands of disks for use in the engineering
>PC's and they all think Dysan is God (I'm not sure if engineering has moved
>into 3.5" disks yet).

Back in the days when I owned an Apple //e, I used to use the 5.25" Dysans.
They were actually pretty good--seemed to be slightly more reliable than
the Maxell disks I owned. When I replaced the //e with a Mac, I bought a
bunch of 3.5" DS DD Dysans, expecting them to also be reliable. Boy, what
a mistake that was! I've used several different batches, some maroon colored,
some ivory colored, some made in the US, some with no identification. In  
the past 2 years, I've been having about a 20% failure rate. They initialize
OK, but dig them out of storage after 8 months, and often sectors have gone
bad, and the disk must be reinitialized. Sometimes you can't even do that
much. In contrast, I've only seen 1 or 2 Apple brand disks, Sony's and
Memorex disks die. So far, no problems with Verbatim, and I'm going to try
Nashua next.