4 May
2005
4 May
'05
9:57 a.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Heh heh, I remember in the mid/late 90's I had a
HD floppy (Verbatim I
think it was) that just would not die. It probably went through a full
data cycle / format twice a week on average for many years and refused
to ever throw up a bad block.
It performed well BECAUSE you put it through a format twice a week. You can
punch a hole in the other side of a DDSD 720K disk and use it as a DSHD 1.44MB
floppy 100% reliably *as long as you write to it once a week*. I did this in
college to transfer data between friends every day (early 1990s, no networking)
-- I took the school-issued DSDD disks and burnt a hole on the other side with
my soldiering iron to make them work as 1.44MB disks. They were formatted once
a month and written to at least once a day.
I found a few of them a few years ago and tried to read them -- not a single
single track was error-free :-)
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