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From: sethf@Athena.MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 18:08:41 -0400 To: hotline@Athena.MIT.EDU The drive on a Maxine appears to be eating disks. The machine is under Athena Service, serial number AB23100LSS. Here is a report from a user: From: xiphmont@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: Lockpick's 3.5" drive I fear that the floppy drive on Lockpick is physically damaging disks. I performed the following test: I formatted a disk on Fish (my machine). I then reformatted the disk. It was clean, no errors. I filled the disk full of 'stuff' on Fish and verified. No errors. I erased the disk on Fish and put it in Lockpick. I filled the disk on Lockpick. I then tried to read the files on Fish. 'General failure' error after reading the first two files. I reformatted the disk on Fish. It reported 92?? bytes in bad sectors upon format. The test held true for three disks. Torque is not having the same difficulties. Monty
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