[arachne] Re: burned CD's that won't read.....

  • From: "Greg Mayman" <gmone@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:44:23 +0930

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On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:50:08 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

> I wonder whatever went wrong with the quality control departments,
> or the standards of the quality specifications in the factories which
> manufacture floppy disks.  Nowadays all the brands of new floppy
> disks I have used seem to be far inferior to all the brands of floppy
> disks I used to use many years ago.

Could it be.... nah, it wouldn't be that... or would it.... that your
floppy drive is suffering wear?

Wanna work out how many hours of use the head has had?

    
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