DING DING! Back to your corners... WAS: Re: Irreverence to irrelevance

From: Les Berry <lfb107_at_psu.edu>
Date: Thu Mar 19 11:13:40 1998

At 04:12 AM 3/19/98 GMT, Bill Richman wrote:
>How many do you need? I've got about 15 that aren't doing anything
>important. I bought two of the SQ drives when they first came out,
>sank a bundle into the cartridges, and then they flaked out on me.
>One drive had some kind of head crash and started eating cartridges,
>and the other one just ceased to function. Frankly, I was not
>impressed. Perhaps their new products are better. Do you know of any
>way to re-format a SQ disk that has been bulk-erased? I had this
>bright idea several years ago that maybe just completely clearing the
>disks by bulk-erasing would be a good thing. I'm thinking now that I
>obliterated some factory tracks that the drive can't reproduce.
>Ideas?

To tell you the truth, I don't know the first thing about these drives. I just
got one for free a whilke ago and was really just wondering if the damn thing
worked or not.

I'll let you know what i find out tho...

Les
Received on Thu Mar 19 1998 - 11:13:40 GMT