On Tue, 13 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > > DOS is more forgiving of bad disks than linux is. This is about the only > "disk" problem you might have. The only one I've heard of so far. If you > put it on a bad disk use another one. Don't use DOS as aguage of a good > disk or bad disk, it might be fine for DOS but not for linux.
Be careful when DOS formatting a floppy to see if format reports any bad areas. If so, toss the disk. Compuserve and AOL will be sending you an adequate supply for free in any case. Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .