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Date:      Tue, 20 May 1997 08:50:19 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.com
Cc:        thompson@squirrel.tgsoft.com (mark thompson)
Subject:   Re: floppy flaky
Message-ID:  <19970520085019.JZ36841@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <19970520041918.9270.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com>; from mark thompson on May 20, 1997 04:19:18 -0000
References:  <19970520041918.9270.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com>

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As mark thompson wrote:

> Pretty strange, that no errors are reported, huh? Floppy drive, cable,
> controller, software? 

Writing a floppy can only detect catastrophic errors (sector marks not
found).  Data-field only errors remain undetected.

Reformat your floppy.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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