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From: fozzard@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Richard Fozzard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: flaky ?%*(#&%#!! FHDH
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Date: 15 Feb 90 00:06:56 GMT
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We too have had these problems with every FDHD we have. 2 IIx's FDHDs
blew up early on, scribbling all over any inserted disks. After replacement,
they stopped destroying disks, but still remain unable to format many
disks that Pluses, IIs, and SEs have no trouble with. My personal SE/30
has the same problem; I have a pile of unsuable disks (all of which
work fine on non-FDHDs) as tall as my pile of usable ones (all 800k).
Very frustrating.

[Ah, hell: who needs floppies any more? I just got a syquest drive and
am in seventh (mass storage) heaven. Nowadays, I just use floppies to
play fetch with my dog :-)]

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Richard Fozzard					"Serendipity empowers"
Univ of Colorado/CIRES/NOAA	R/E/FS  325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80303
fozzard@boulder.colorado.edu                   (303)497-6011 or 444-3168