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From: mark thompson <thompson@squirrel.tgsoft.com>
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
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Subject: Re: floppy flaky
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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