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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: HELP! Corrupted Disks
Keywords: This seems to be a common problem, no ?
Message-ID: <4005@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jun 88 23:02:29 GMT
References: <1544@edison.GE.COM>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <1544@edison.GE.COM> mfs@edison.GE.COM (mfs @ Somewhere in the Mountains) writes:
> 
> I have a new (4 month old) Amiga 500 that has started giving me all
> kinds of trouble with the disks.  It seems everytime I turn around, I get
> the infamous 'Volume xxxx has a read/write error' requester.  Sometimes
> I can edit or download for hours before this happens and sometimes it
> just takes a few minutes.
> 
> I have tried all kinds of disks: Sony, BASF, Memorex and Generics.
> They all seem to eventually go bad.  The funny thing is, when I run
> diskdoctor on them, they all (with rare exceptions) have hard errors
> on track 40.  Also, after diskdoctor finishes, I get a requester
> that says: Insert volume Lazarus.  I have never had a disk named this!
> What exactly is going on here ?! 

Sounds for sure like some kind of drive alignment problem or other
drive related defect...

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