4 May
2005
4 May
'05
7:06 a.m.
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:
Anyone know why modern floppy disks are such total
junk? They seem to
often develop problems after only one or two writes - whereas back in
the day they were always pretty reliable.
That's a really good question. I'd like an answer myself. I routinely
read disks that are 20-25-30 years old with few problems, yet I can't walk
10 feet to another computer and recover a file I just copied onto a modern
3.5" disk without the disk going bad. Go figure.
About 25% of Sony branded floppies seem to die on the
first format,
which is nice...
It seems to be all brands. 3Ms are particularly bad as well.
(I'm trying to remain cheerful here whilst
attempting to find a floppy
that actually works 100%...)
Once you do find one, hang on to it. They're becoming as precious as
gold.
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