30 Jul
2016
30 Jul
'16
7:25 p.m.
When I have to go through piles of floppies (and I do this more often
than I care to) I make a master iamge of a good floppy and then copy
with format+verify, aborting on the first error.
The reason is quite simple--floppies with bad spots never get better,
they only get worse. So you might as well bin the ones that don't pass
the test.
I have a special machine set up with 3 floppy controllers that can write
3 disks simultaneously--disk changes are triggered by simply removing
and inserting floppies from the drives. There are 6 drives on this
machine, so the work progresses pretty well.
My take, anyway.
--Chuck