On 5/28/12 11:17 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Certainly the best way to recover is to use som sort
of non-contact
reading.
Or a much more sensitive transducer (probably based on a more modern
magneto-restrictive read head).
One thing I noticed in a recent adventure in double-sided 8" floppy reading
was the recovery rate on the top head has been MUCH worse than the bottom.
I was running the drive vertically, so gravity shouldn't have been a factor.