indra@utai.UUCP (Indra Laksono) (01/17/85)
Mine is a tale of misfortune. On a winter day (yesterday), I went into a store and had a really good bargain, or so I thought. A pack of disks with attractive packaging, DSDD - C$22.00 !! Never believing the tales of format failure, I went ahead and bought 2 boxes. So, I typed : format b: and the format was ok. 2nd disk was ok as well. But the 3rd disk said : format failure "Fluke", I thought, and reformatted, it worked, 2 more disks with format failure was formatted the 2nd time. THEN disk #7 came and : 1st time : format failure 2nd time : format failure 3rd time : format failure 4th time : format failure I gave up. After formatting all 20 disks, I compiled the following statistics : Tries | 1 | 2 | 3 | * | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- # | 9 | 7 | 2 | 2 | ========================================================================= * indicates # of disks that wouldn't format at all after 4th attempt. This story has no morale. I wish I had never gone out at all yesterday.