Floppy format question.
tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
Thu May 11 15:30:42 UTC 2006
On Thu, 11 May 2006, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> On formatting floppy, most of the floppies in my possession failed to
> get through verification, such as
>
> Verifying ... Problem reading cylinder 0, expected 18432, read 8192
> Verifying ... Problem reading cylinder 51, expected 18432, read 10240
> Verifying ... Problem reading cylinder 1, expected 18432, read 14336
> etc.
>
> Format has no problem. Please advise how to fix them.
>
> TIA
Personal opinion. If the disk fails verification, pitch it in the trash. I
pretty much gave up on floppys a couple years ago due to getting a
rediculous rate of verification errors.
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