On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 04:55:46PM -0500, Jules Richardson wrote:
 (Incidentally I used to get 3.5" DD BASF media for free, and rarely had any
 problems with that - but the HD stuff was a nightmare) 
Exactly. I dealt with the 3.5" HD stuff. I avoided BASF wherever
possible because the disks were so amazingly crappy. Unfortunately, the
competition wasn't much better.
Reagrds,
      Alex.
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