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Article #103029Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL?
From: war...
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 00:00
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In <322a08e0...@nntp.ix.netcom.com>, mckn...@ix.netcom.com (Lawrence E. McKnight) writes: >tan...@cyberport.com (Warren Young) wrote: > >>ea...@wwa.com (the kumquat kuriosity) wrote: >> >>>Agreed. I've rubbed snips>> >>So, a question: what is it that will cause a disk to go bad in the >>five minutes it takes me to drive to work? It sure as heck isn't >>magnetism. :-/ I can't count the number of times I've gone home to >>grab something, put it on a floppy, drove to work, and couldn't read >>the disk. > >Well, the obvious possibility is that your two drives are 'out of spec' >in opposite directions. snips > Another common cause: The diskette was formatted on a clone at 720k density, and is being read by a PS/2 computer with a 1.44meg floppy. Solution: format on the PS/2, then both will work. Or better, use 1.44meg floppies (HD). Warren http://www.borg.com/~warren
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From: war...@borg.com Subject: Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL? Date: 1996/09/03 Message-ID: <50hn7f$9g2@ns2.borg.com> X-Deja-AN: 178208355 references: <4vf2rs$f6s@paperboy.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> <4vsa8v$ctp@news.usit.net> <4vsg0a$pr4@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> <4vvdb4$6a@lex.zippo.com> <502af2$gse@darkwing.uoregon.edu> <eaton-ya023060032908961540300001@news.wwa.com> <32290ce2.79403876@news.cyberport.com> <322a08e0.2423510@nntp.ix.netcom.com> organization: Team OS/2 reply-to: war...@borg.com (Warren Hall) newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit