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Date:	Fri, 4 Jan 2002 18:29:21 PST7
From:	Zdenek JIzba <jizba@gte.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: command prompt

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The reason I used one of the eCS utility diskettes is because
I know it IS NOT BAD I used it often. Besides I had tried
so far some 12 diskettes that I had no reason to believe were
bad, all with the same result!!!! The odds against the cause of the
message meaning truly bad diskettes are astronomical.

"Thomas A. Brown" wrote:

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> Your diskette is bad. Throw it away.
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> Zdenek JIzba wrote:
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> > It ocurred to me that I did not give enough information on my problem.
> > Here is more detail on an experiment I did just a few minutes ago.
> > 1. I inserted an extra copy of my eCS utility diskettes into the
> > floppy disk drive.
> > 2. At the eCS prompt I entered dir a:
> > The result was a long list of the contents of the 1.44 HD drive
> > 3. I entered the command: Format a:
> > This produced the two messages:
> > SYS1281 Track 0 could not be formatted
> > SYS1279 The format was unsuccessful
> > 4. I re-entered the command: dir a: the message reads:
> > The drive cannot find the sector (area requested)
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> --
> Tom Brown
> thombrown@san.rr.com
> SCOUG Member
> running eComStation
> OS/2 system uptime is 0 days 00:39 hours
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