burton@fortune.UUCP (06/05/84)
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fortune!burton Jun 4 17:11:00 1984
I had a problem where the disk was somehow glued (?) to the diskette liner.
I had to caaarrefulllly slice up the jacket, and caarrefulllly pull the
"cookie" out from the jacket, and insert it the same way into a scrap
diskette liner. Then it read fine. I think that the problem was caused
when the disk was shipped, and exposed to very high temperatures.
Philip Burton 101 Twin Dolphin Drive-MS 133
Fortune Systems Redwood City, CA 94065 (415) 595-8444 x 526
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zinfandel!dave May 31 10:30:00 1984
Hmmm. That sounds really wierd. I assume one of those Dysans you received
was the one I sent you. I was able to format it okay, and I have used most
of the other diskettes that were in the same box with no difficulty at all.
I don't recall checking the tightness of the media. I suppose it's remotely
possible that something happened in the mail, but I doubt it.
Is it possible that your drive isn't clamping down on the disk hub hard
enough? If true, the disk might be slipping...
Dave Funk
Zehntel, Inc.
2625 Shadelands Drive
Walnut Creek, CA 92598
(415) 932-6900 x309
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...."zehntel!dave"@BERKELEYac4@pucc-h (Tom Putnam) (06/05/84)
Last year one of the PC-related magazines distributed a diskette with a demo copy of MicroSoft Word bound right into the magazine. In the instructions for using the diskette, they said to flatten the edges of the jacket by successively holding each pair of adjacent corners and running the edge of the jacket along the edge of a desk. It makes sense if you stop to think about it... when you mail a diskette to someone without a proper mailer, the edges of the jacket get squeezed and the diskette will not turn freely. I dare say this would happen with any brand! Tom Putnam ...!pur-ee!pucc-h:ac4
gurr@west44.UUCP (06/08/84)
< force of habit .. >
I have had a similar problem with Wabash - they sound like there's sand in
the sleeve when they're rotating, and sometimes I can't close the drive
door 'cos they're so tight that they won't centre automatically.
After a fair bit of use they seem to loosen up some, but I get fed up of
having to centre the disc by hand before I use it!
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Dave Gurr, Westfield College, Univ. of London, England.