Just as another data point, I had to use a half-dozen brand new floppies
(probably not as brand new as I would have hoped) before I got a pair
that worked. This took several hours of experimenting. Plus, the
floppies passed fdformat without errors.

Floppies are not very reliable any more (if they ever were).

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Paul (NCC/CS) wrote:

>
> i've tried 2 different floppies, same result.
> but floppy 1 works & another backup floppy
> reads ok.
>
> how to read them to verify?
> I tried to mount it but that doesn't work.
>
> thks,
> p.
>
>
>
> matthew green wrote:
>
>> could you please verify that the floppy disks you are using are
>> stable and you can re-read the data off them identically?  my
>> first reactin oto floppy install failures is to blame the floppy's
>> themselves...
>>
>> otherwise maybe they're just broken and haven't been tested until
>> now ;-)
>>
>> .mrg.

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