Re: I/O errors?

Bruce Carter (bcarter@mentor.idbsu.edu)
Sun, 31 Mar 1996 23:52:21 EST

At 9:14 AM 3/30/96, Keith Vallis wrote:
>Please somebody give me the low down on I/O errors on Macs. What do they
>mean. How do you prevent them. How do you fix them? They're occuring
>mainly with Claris 4, but also with Writing Centre?
>Help??

In my experience, it usually means that the media has been corrupted in
some way. With floppy disks, it's often physical damage, a scratch or some
sort of crud on the media. If it occurs on hard drives or larg capacity
removable media, you may need to backup your drive and reformat.

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