Floppy disks and RS/6000

Frank Feuerbacher frank at gremlin.austin.ibm.com
Tue Oct 9 00:22:45 AEST 1990


In article <8664 at milton.u.washington.edu>, eliot at engr.washington.edu
(Eliot Lim) writes:
>
> I seem to have a very high percentage of defective high density floppies
> with RS/6000s.  Are high density floppies crappy in general or are the
> drives on RS/6000s very fussy or is it something else?

Could you have a bad batch of floppies?  If not, call the problem in to
hardware support.  While I have seen a few of floppies go bad (we use a
LOT of em over & over again)  they seem to be quite reliable.

- Frank Feuerbacher


Disclaimer: I don't speak for my employer and they don't speak for me.



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