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In message Fri, 03 Mar 1995 06:07:27 -0500, dvchan@netcom.com (Derek V. Chan) writes: > and 1.44 hi-formatted diskettes? I have data errors reading them. > Yeah, I know you shouldn't do this, but is this a drive error, or just > media? > The drive always gets media errors on the last 190 K or so of a file that > spans the entire disk. My hunch is it has to do with the smaller read/write heads on the 2.88MB drive. When I first got my 750 it read nearly all my old 1.44 diskettes. The few it couldn't read I diskcopy'ed on another machine and it could read the copies. I also ran across a friend's machine who could read diskettes written by my TP, but my TP couldn't read diskettes written by that machine. After my drive died and I had it replaced, it *could* read those floppies. So I suspect we're playing with really close tolerances here. If it's a consistent problem, get the 2.88MB drive replaced. ______________________________________________________________________ |\ _____________________________________________________________________\ | | | | | John H. Kim "Um ... no." -- Outfielder Darryl Strawberry's | | | jokim@mit.edu hesitant reply when asked by a judge if he | | | jokim@uni.uiuc.edu had taken drugs in the past few days. | \|______________________________________________________________________|