2 Aug
2014
2 Aug
'14
10:50 p.m.
On Sat, 2 Aug 2014, Mark J. Blair wrote:
Ok, I may have been too quick to jump to conclusions.
While playing with
the other "good" drive on a floppy disk exerciser, it also started
making the fingernails-on-chalkboard sound. I can scrape the oxide of
the disk that was in it with a fingernail near the hub of the disk, so I
think these are just bad disks.
I have many various old 8" floppies that I've been hoping to try to
image. If I can scrape the oxide with a fingernail, is it worth trying
to read the disk, or will it just crud up the heads of whatever drive I
put it in?
I wonder if it's useful to polish read-write heads.
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu