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

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