If the drives won't read disks that they themselves formatted, then that's a sad day. Just for yuks, though, have you tried doing this on a given disk more than once? If the heads are badly misaligned, I find that more than one pass is sometimes required, if the floppy disk has previously had data written to it -- the erase operation apparently doesn't quite succeed in wiping out bits that were written strongly some distance away.

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