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From: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacSE/30 HDFD Problem
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Date: 9 Jun 89 13:38:18 GMT
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In article <335@smsdpg.uu.net> rht@smsdpg.UUCP (Randy Thompson) writes:
<I have however begun to see
<what I think is a problem with the High Density Floppy
<Drive. The drive appears to work fine when using single 
<or double density (400k and 800k) floppies. But when I
<format a HD floppy, about 50% of the time, the floppy 
<that I formatted either:
<
<	1) Loses a couple of files in copying to it.
<	   ie. cant be written to.
<
<	2) When reinserted into the drive at a later date,
<	   the floppy cant be read.
<
<Has anyone else had this problem? Any suggestions?

I haven't tried the high density disks yet, but I think it's funny that
three of my new Kao diskettes have been tossed aside as bad when I never
had a problem with any diskette on any other Mac yet. While copying 8-10
files at a time, one of them would not copy (read error). I continued and
later could sometimes drag that one file to the diskette anyways. When
it would no longer copy that way, I tried to erase the disk. Initialization
fails. I keep meaning to bring the disks to work and format them on the
Mac II. I bet they're OK.

Shirley Kehr