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From: lev@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL (Lloyd E Vancil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Wanted:: 3.5 inch disk help ::
Summary: Tired of Abort Retry Fail messages
Keywords: 3.5 inch disks, fail to read (PC)
Message-ID: <8837@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL>
Date: 28 Mar 91 16:26:15 GMT
Reply-To: lev@suned1.UUCP (Lloyd E Vancil)
Organization: NSWSES, Port Hueneme, CA
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I am really puzzled.  I have a COMPAQ slt286  (12 mghz)  it has a 1.44 mb
3.5 inch drive.  I also have a clone with a Teac 1.44 drive.
Here is the problem:
  If I format on the compaq and then write on the clone everything seems
to work.  
  If I format on the clone and then write on the compaq the clone
comes up with that #$$#@@$% Abort Retry... message when I try to read the
disk.  The Compaq will still read it but the clone won't.  It happens about
equally in the attempt to read the directory and an attempt to read a file.
It doesn't appear to have a relationship to a particular track on the disk. 
It happens to disks formatted in dos or with after market formatters like
the one in PCTOOLS.  I have run CHECKIT and QAPLUS on both machines.  They
both pass the random read/write  test.  The Compaq diags that come with it
pass the compaq drive, I haven't tried them on the Teac.
Any suggestions?
Email plz
TNX

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