GROSS@umiami.miami.edu (Jason Gross) (11/30/89)
Is it just me, or has anyone else had problems with floppy drives on the
Mac? I'm the "techie" (and I stretch that to the farthest degrees of its
meaning :) ) here at our Mac lab and about once a week, someone comes in
with a damaged disk. I always ask them when they last used the disk and
what they did with it. Most of the responses go along the lines of "this
morning I used it and saved my files. Now when I put it in the drive,
it says 'Disk is unreadable, do you wish to initialize?'."
I have seen this happen. One minute the disk was working...then as soon
as they move to another Mac, the disk becomes unreadable. When I use
SUM on them, sometimes the files come back. When SUM doesn't work, I
use FEdit to copy sector by sector...and it always says that the
directory blocks havd an incorrect data checksum.
So I guess my question is why or how can a disk get it's directory blocks
trashed (or whatever happens to them. What the heck does this incorrect
data checksum mean?!) by just putting the disk into a drive?
Please repsond for I am tired of sector-by-sector copying and telling people
that they have to re-format they're 40-page papers. :)
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Jason Gross Comp Sci Ugrad University of Miami Class of '91 (?)
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