6 Sep
2007
6 Sep
'07
8:25 p.m.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140155187682
> How to make an unreliable medium even LESS reliable.
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Mr Ian Primus wrote:
Funny thing was, disks modified in this fashion never
gave me any problems. I know that the media is
different, and that it should have been unreliable,
but, back then anyway, it worked just fine. I even
remember reading an old disk as recently as last year,
and it still worked.
The difference in coercivity of 720K v 1.4M is slight - 600 v ~730,
as opposed to 300 v 600 for 360K v 1.2M. Therefore, you can usually get
away with the reduction in reliability, where you couldn't with 5.25".
I never had the problem with floppies ten years ago
that I have now with brand new disks. I think that at
some point, the quality of the media just went through
the floor.
Arg, don't get me started on how they don't make things like they usta.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com