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From: charles@hpcvca.HP.COM (Charles Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: drive probs
Message-ID: <5660003@hpcvca.HP.COM>
Date: 1 Aug 88 20:42:56 GMT
References: <18200001@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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>At first the drive seemed misaligned, so I brought it in to my local
>amiga store to have the drive aligned. After bringing it home, 
>I put in my copy of my workbench and it had a read error.
>These read errors seemed to spread to a few of my other disks.
>I decided to bring my A500 and external drive in
>again to have them fully checked out.  They both passed.

If a disk is written with a drive which is out of alignment, the data
may not be readable to a drive which is in alignment.  Naturally, if
you align your drive any disks which were written before the align
will become hard to read.

>I, being very annoyed at this time, reformated my original workbench
>and used diskdoctor on it one more time.  This time it checked out to
>have NO hard errors!  Do I have some sort of virus or is my drive
>trashing my disks?

You reformatted the original workbench as created by C/A?  Or you
reformatted the workbench which you copied from a C/A disk using your
out-of-alignment drive?  After you formatted the disk it no longer has
workbench or anything else on it.  Naturally diskdocter will find no
problems.

>Please respond by e-mail to sdamberger@civilgate.ce.uiuc.edu.

Sorry.  This site is poorly administered and has problems with
addresses such as your.
	Charles Brown	charles%hpcvca@hplabs.hp.com
These are my opinions and not my employers.