20 Feb
2008
20 Feb
'08
2:10 p.m.
In my humble opinion, what's really needed is a quick and reliable
non-contact method of recovering floppy data. Perhaps one of the
more modern head technologies, such as GMR might be suitable for a
head that doesn't contact the media. Or maybe we need to revive the
"magnasee and laser" method.
Increasingly, I'm seeing 5.25" diskettes with media flaking. There's
no way that I'm going to stick one of those into a standard floppy
drive, even after baking.
It might be that we're starting to approach the "use by" date with
some brands and need to resort to other approaches.
Cheers,
Chuck