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From: dnewman@ut-emx.UUCP (Dave Newman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Bad Floppy Drive? (Answer)
Message-ID: <24040@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 90 02:51:10 GMT
Reply-To: dnewman@ut-emx.UUCP (David Newman)
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Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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Regarding my question about a potential bad floppy and/or floppy drive.

The main symptom was that I was getting disks that were acting
locked even though they weren't in fact locked.  Someone suggested
rebuilding the desktop file, but the machine wouldn't do that since
it thought that the disk was locked.  The solution turned out to be
to rewrite the boot blocks using SUM II.

>>Dave