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| 1707.1 | Memorex disks at BJ's | MEIS::ZIMMERMAN | Walt sent me | Wed Sep 21 1988 13:25 | 5 |
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BJ's Wholesale on Rte 9 in Westboro has Memorex disks (and BASF
disks, as someone already mentioned) for $13 a 10-pack.
- Cliff
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| 1707.2 | Software Etc/Fuji | RAVEN1::EVERHART | | Wed Sep 21 1988 13:35 | 12 |
| re .0
I bought a brand of disks that Software Etc. was selling in
Atlanta. The disks have their label on them, but are made by Fuji.
They seem to be excellent disks, and were a steal at only $13.65
for a single box of 10. (In other words, you don't need to buy
more than one box). If the Memorex disks in .1 can be bought as
single boxes, than it's an outstanding deal. Just thought I'd put
my $0.01 in.
- Chris
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| 1707.3 | Bad Diskettes? | CIMAMT::CROMACK | | Wed Sep 21 1988 14:47 | 13 |
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I bought some verbatim diskettes and am having trouble with
them. I'm wondering if it is my drive. I have a standard amiga
external drive. I can format most of the disketts but I usually
get a read/write error when I start putting files on the disk.
I've had this problem with a lot of diskettes. Does anyone know
if there is some way I can test my drive?
Dean Cromack
P.S. I get some diskettes to work. They don't all fail.
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| 1707.4 | one or more | WJG::GUINEAU | Just a Window in Time | Wed Sep 21 1988 16:06 | 7 |
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re .2:
Yup, BJ's has single boxes of 10 for $13.
John
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| 1707.5 | Bonus {Verbatim} diskettes are fine. | DNEAST::SEELEY_BOB | | Wed Sep 21 1988 16:06 | 5 |
| I've had very good luck with the Bonus {Verbatim} diskettes. I've
gotten them on sale on at least one occasion for ~$12.00 at Service
Merchandise (normally they are about $14.00 for 11). I have
used them almost exclusively for the last three months with no
read/write failures and, so far, no complaints.
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| 1707.6 | Single-sided? | RAVEN1::EVERHART | | Wed Sep 21 1988 16:27 | 16 |
| re .3
It's possible that you're accidentally buying single sided
diskettes instead of double sided. With 5.25 inch diskettes, this
almost always doesn't matter. Both sides are prepared on the diskette,
but only one is checked. However, this philosophy isn't always
correct with the 3.5" diskettes. Many dealers only prepare one
side when they make the single-sided diskettes. Also, the Verbatim
diskettes may be a particularly bad brand that your disk drive doesn't
like. If you want to take advantage of the lower priced single-sided
diskettes that work just like the double-sided ones, then Maxell
makes some that are high quality. I've used the Maxell single-sided
several times, and my computer doesn't even know the difference.
I hope you find the problem, whatever it might be.
- Chris
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| 1707.7 | More Bad Diskettes | CIMAMT::CROMACK | | Fri Sep 23 1988 23:38 | 10 |
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Is there something special about cylinder 40 on a diskette?
That is the cylinder which seems to fail.
Is there a virus out there that would do this?
Dean Cromack
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| 1707.8 | OS Bug | TLE::RMEYERS | Randy Meyers | Sat Sep 24 1988 17:44 | 7 |
| Re: .7
There is a bug in the operating system that a timer request for an interrupt
in 0 seconds results in track 40 of the floppy being trashed.
Early versions of the Drew shell exercised this bug. What software do you
typically run?
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| 1707.9 | Could this be the problem? | CIMAMT::CROMACK | | Mon Sep 26 1988 09:46 | 10 |
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>Early versions of the Drew shell exercised this bug. What software do you
>typically run?
I was running arc (v2.3 I think)
I may also have been using ARP 1.1.
Dean Cromack
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