blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) (10/26/87)
You may remember my problems with what seemed to be disk drive alignment
about 2 months ago. Well it wasn't the drives, it was some garbage
disks.
After much pounding of my head against a brick wall I finally proved to
myself that it wasn't the drive alignment. I figured that it couldn't
possibly be the disks, but just for laughs I dug out some old Sonys, and
cleaned them off so I could format them.
The results were:
Any Sony formatted in any drive could be read in any drive.
9 of the 50 disks from MEI/Micro Center (they look like BASF) could not
be read in a drive that they were not formatted in.
I have since run another 40 DS/DD Sonys through my machine without any
trouble at all. After all the grief this caused me, I'm sticking with
DS/DD Sonys. Single sides and generics aren't worth the 20-30 cents
I've saved! As for those &^#@%$ BASF disks...
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Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland 540 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108
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"I don't see no points on your ears boy, but you sound like a Vulcan!"