trouble installing FC5 - dont believe media check fail!

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sun Apr 23 06:00:43 UTC 2006


Tim:
>> But being serious, I've always avoided spindle packs.  They seem
>> to be the dregs of the barrel.

Russell Golden:
> spindle packs? i'm confused here... disks four and one were the only 
> ones to pass...

Spools of blank discs, rather than individually packaged blank discs.

I find their failure rate very high.  We've used spindles where 1 in 3
discs were stuffed.  It looks like spindles are how they dispose of
their not-so-great stock.

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