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Date:      20 May 1997 13:24:03 -0000
From:      mark thompson <thompson@squirrel.tgsoft.com>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.com
Subject:   Re: floppy flaky
Message-ID:  <19970520132403.10028.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <19970520085019.JZ36841@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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   Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 08:50:19 +0200
   From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)

   As mark thompson wrote:

   > Pretty strange, that no errors are reported, huh? Floppy drive, cable,
   > controller, software? 

   Writing a floppy can only detect catastrophic errors (sector marks not
   found).  Data-field only errors remain undetected.

   Reformat your floppy.

True. But the read should detect a bad checksum, not just return bad
bits, nicht wahr? And besides, i DID reformat the floppies, it still
failed pretty much the same.

I'm flummoxed.

-mark



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