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From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
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Subject: Re: weird error
To: jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu (Jeremy Sigmon)
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 14:27:21 +0200 (MET DST)
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Jeremy Sigmon writes:
>
> Also.....
> How serious is this one <IN BOLD WHITE>
>
> fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 (ST0 40<abnrml> ST 1<no_am> ST 0 cyn 0 hd
> 0 sec 1)

Not very serious.  It's telling you that the floppy has a defective
sector (the very first one: cylinder 0, head 0, sector 1).  This could
mean that the floppy hasn't been formatted.  If it has, throw it away.

Greg