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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Question about 3" DD, HD disks
Message-ID: <3893@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 14 Feb 89 22:24:30 GMT
References: <170@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath)
Organization: The Cat Factory
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In article <170@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> ftrue@jarthur.UUCP (Dr. Destruction) writes:
}Well to make a long story short, I've been formatting DSDD disks for
}1.4megs for about 1 year now, and reading/writing them WITHOUT ERROR since
}then. ...                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

But are they _formatted_ without error?  The times I've done this, I've
invariably ended up with a lot of bad sectors on the disk.  The remaining
sectors work ok and can be written and read without error, but a lot of
disk capacity is lost.

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