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w20-575-24 bad floppy drive

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Tue Oct 12 21:33:00 1999

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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 21:32:55 -0400
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>


Trying to read a floppy (just running volcheck) caused IO errors and
reports of bad blocks to spew to the console on w20-575-24.  The same
floppy was perfectly readable on another machine, so I'm inclined to
suspect a bad or misaligned drive.

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