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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Virus or just plain bad disks?
Message-ID: <2886@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 14 Mar 88 21:45:32 GMT
References: <384@coplex.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <384@coplex.UUCP> jim@coplex.UUCP (Jim Sewell) writes:
>
>I have some Big-Blue friends (no, they aren't smurfs) who use single sided
>3.5 floppies in a double sided environment without fail.  I have also used
>5.25's on several systems that were SS and the drives were DS.  My question 
>is, do I have a bad bunch of floppies, a sneaky unfindable virus, or is it
>that the Amy just doesn't like SS disks?  The reason I have CONSIDERED it
>to possibly be a virus is that track 40 always gets glitched.  Never any 
>problems anywhere else, just the root track.  Any help is appreciated.
> 

 I was given a box of 50 Sony SS disks about a year ago. Two wouldnt format
and 1 has gone bad since. (I salvaged it ok). The rest are fine.


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