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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1.4 Wishes and 3.5" drive question
Keywords: floppy, errors, disk validator
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Date: 30 Mar 89 18:18:39 GMT
References: <1600@wpi.wpi.edu>
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In article <1600@wpi.wpi.edu> john@wpi.wpi.edu (John F Stoffel) writes:
> My wish for 1.4 is the ability to map out bad blocks on a floppy disk.
>   ... My problem is I've got a batch of sub-standard disks, ...

The answer isn't to make it possible to use substandard disks on the Amiga,
the answer is to fork over the extra nickel or dime to get real disks. 
You don't ask GM to fix your car so that you can run it on methanol do
you? Do yourself a favor and sell those substandard floppies to someone
else. [I'd guess they are not substandard, rather they are only single sided
and you get hosed trying to write to the back side of them.] You are only
asking for trouble if you continue to use them. The even more insidious 
problem will be two weeks from now when you go to read back the data and
it is now unreadable. Save yourself the hassle. Dump these loser disks.


--Chuck McManis
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