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From: sho@pur-phy (Sho Kuwamoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Have you checked your floppies lately?
Message-ID: <2128@pur-phy>
Date: 11 Apr 89 05:01:05 GMT
References: <28718@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto)
Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN
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In article <28718@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:

>One of the things I did was re-initialize all my DiskFit backups. The scary
>part was that out of about 60 floppies (three different sets of full backups
>over two machines) three of them failed initialization -- there were three
>bad floppies in my backups. 

My disks die at an even greater rate.  I would guess about 1 out of 10
per year, if not more.  I'm using 3M disks, but I don't think that is
the problem.  I think the problem is that... (drum roll)

I smoke.

Oh well, another reason to quit.  I'm not sure if the disks are getting
damaged, or if the drive itself is being trashed.  (hope not.)

-Sho