6 Sep
2011
6 Sep
'11
1:30 p.m.
On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 08:16 -0700, Chuck Guzis wrote:
The problem with this, as people who discovered that
5.25" 2D
floppies "bulk erased", then formatted in a 1.2M drive (alternate
tracks), then read in a 360K (48tpi) drives still had the background
"noise" and so didn't work.
Guess why this is WAY down on the "to do" list... :)
Nothing substitutes for a genuine bulk
eraser/degausser. Nothing.
One may as well have done a DOS FORMAT for all the good it would have
done.
I'd rather like to get my hands on a degausser but it seems the
audiophools have pushed the prices up to silly levels around here... and
I don't have a suitable transformer to chop up to make one.
There are a couple of cheap permanent magnet degaussers around, though I
was under the impression these actually *magnetise* the media, or the
opposite of what a "proper" degausser does...
--
Phil.
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http://www.philpem.me.uk/