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From: cbmvax!grr@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: HELP! Corrupted Disks
Message-ID: <2977@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 13 Jun 88 02:27:39 GMT
Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU
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<In article <1544@edison.GE.COM> mfs@edison.GE.COM (mfs @ Somewhere in the
< Mountains) writes:
<>
<>  [Misc failure mode stuff eaten...... along with list of disk types ]
<> 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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I suspect that i'm not really qualified to be commentingcu
about this  but it sounds all like the infamous timer.device
bug....
(remember DELAY(0) folks?????)

TRACK 40 was what got eaten by this wasn't it?????


Jonathan Crone
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Jonathan P. Crone
Vice President, AURA,  (Amiga Users of Regina Associated.)
(Regina, Sask. Canada )    (eh???)

CRONEJP@UREGINA1.BITNET
....rutgers!mimsy!uunet!mcl!cronejp

come on now....  does ANYONE give a damn about what i have to say?
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