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Bad disc – why?

    24-May-93 09:59:32
Fm: David Dillard [MDI] 70414,1652
To: Kevin O'Neal 76217,1160
"what causes a disc to fail?" One time we ran across a NASA disc that had some files that couldn't be read. We did some low-level investigation and found that the directory entries for the files we couldn't read were off the end of the disc. We called the publisher and after a little while they figured out that they "hadn't loaded the last tape". David