24 Jun
1998
24 Jun
'98
11:18 a.m.
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Hans Franke wrote:
My experience with that failure mode has been largely limited
to 8" Verbatim floppies. They supposedly had a 'lubricated'
surface to ease head wear. Don't know whether that idea worked
or not, but they sure mucked up a couple of heads for me on a
temporary basis. Spoiled some file transfer too! I learned a
strong lesson from that, though. Do a disk copy before you try
to read individual files!
- don
On Tue, 23 Jun
1998, Allison J Parent wrote:
> <Shure, but where ? Just on a disk ? I already have the problem
> <that I can't read some fd's of the early 80s. Even APPLE II disks,
> <althrough I always said that a DISK ][ drive could read and write
> <anything including Bierdeckl (beer mats/coasters).
> Disks on good equipment are as reliable as
Magtape.
Better, I think, as with disks you need not be
concerned with layer to
layer adhesion or layer to layer transfer.
Maybe I shoud take some damaged 5,25" disks to the VCF
to show the effects of fd aging. It's a real mess when
the magnetic surface is tearing down. I have dozends
of deffect _mecanical_ disks and already ruined five
drives - and it took me about 6 hours (and one damaged
head) to clean one and get it back working.