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From: klett@ghill.enet.dec.com (Michael Klett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Software / Games ; Retail
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Date: 14 Mar 90 12:58:48 GMT
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In article <2442@rodan.acs.syr.edu>, amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen) writes...
> 
>I buy very few games for use with my IBM pc... computers.  However,
>the users I support buy some.  Over the last month or 2, I have had
>a great influx of reported (& documented by me...) problems reading
>original disks from unopened software boxes, coming from several
>different local software vendors.

have you tried cleaning the heads?
have you tried doing a floppy head alignment?

These things used to get done often - before the advent of the pc - and
seems to be forgotten about now that floppy drives are such a commodity.
These DO need to be done occasionally and DO make a significant difference
in sector read performance.

Michael Klett
(508) 841-2790          klett@ghill.enet.dec.com

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