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From: CB@frambo.dec.com (Christian Balzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Me again with a new question.
Message-ID: <8905310928.AA08222@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 31 May 89 09:28:33 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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[I wish you people would use more intelligeble Subject: lines]

In article <11791@s.ms.uky.edu>, R'ykandar Korra'ti writes:

<About trouble with his disk drive and/or certain media>

While it is definitivly NO complete drive/media test, try to use
TurboBackup (Fish #139) to copy to the suspect disk/drive.
TB will tell you precisely what went wrong where.
So if your drive is rotten, you should get repeatable faults at
certain tracks (or all over the place), while weak media will usually
show differing bad areas. Make sure you read the documentation first.

Anyway, TurboBackup is my tool of choice to determine weak media, since
it also checks the sync gap for faults (read the doc for more).

Cherrio,
 
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