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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