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From: covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: MEI Floppies
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Date: 14 Feb 90 20:15:27 GMT
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> In article <2013@moscom.UUCP>, tmb@moscom.UUCP (Tom Bellucco) writes...
> "Help!!  For the past couple years, I've been buying bulk 3.5" DSDD disks from
> "MEI/MicroCenter.  I've bought THOUSANDS of disks from them, starting when they
> "were $1 per disk.  Now they are $.45 per disk and they are shit.  Out of each
> "200 I buy, at least 50-75 of them won't format DS.  I figure they are just
> "using SS disks (because the SS disks are the same price).  Back when the
> "disks were from $.70 - $1 each, they were great disks and it was a great deal.
> "Now it sucks having to return disks only to get more bad ones.  Some of these
> "disks have "marks" (look like scratches) across the media that I just wonder
> "is doing to my drive.

We buy hundreds of the MEI floppies each year to seel at our PHAST Club
meetings. We have had very low (less than 1%) failures with these floppies.
These floppies are used on all sorts of STs, with all kinds of floppy drives.

If you are having that large a failure rate I would suggest that you have your
floppy drive checked out. I t may need alignment, or have a bad head, or
something.

I have never seen scratch marks on our floppies. I just bought 200 for our PHAST
club last week and we used about 40 of them for pd disks. They all formatted fine
on my STs at home.

Good luck!!


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