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Packet: TENMIN
Date: 15-05-1994 (09:21)           Number: 487
From: Bob Lawrence                 Refer#: NONE
  To: Paul Edwards                  Recvd: NO
Subj: Bob's crook FDD                Conf: (3) LOCSYSOP
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Bugger me dead...Don't you old fellas need any sleep ???
What time did you wake up ??? Did you go to bed ???
I was going to call you at about 10:30 to see if you had tried the
new disks, but I figured you would still be asleep. I know I would
have been if I didn't have two kids jumping on my head at 6:30 after
only 1.5 Hrs of sleep :(


BL>        I ran your floppies through my FDD and it reads them
BL> perfectly, but it still baulks at the two Borland discs.

This is a GOOD sign Bob.

BL> I ran the norton FDD tests on four formatted discs: mine, Paul M's,
BL> yours, and Borlands crook disc #2, and it passed on the lot! But it
BL> won't read the Borland one. Bloody norton is useless.

Yeah, I've been telling you for ages that that Norton bloke is brain
dead, but would you listen...No way jose.

BL>  What I think is happening, is that the Borland disc has been
BL> recorded at a low magnetic level or has been partially wiped by old
BL> age or a magnetic field,

Corse the other possibility is that the Borland disk is just stuffed :)

BL>  Brenton, are you there?

Yeah, right here.

BL> Is it possible that it's just dirty heads?

Anythings "possible" Bob :)

BL> I'll reinstall this afternoon; first with the original discs with
BL> the #2 and #7 replaced by your good copies, and if it still fails,
BL> I'll try it with your version. If *that* fails, I'll throw the whole
BL> bloody thing out the window and join the Trappist monks.

Fair enough, I'd sell keith Disk #1 first though :)
He needs it more than I do and he also replied to David first.

Cheers, Brenton

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