4 May
2005
4 May
'05
11:50 a.m.
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:
Anyone know why modern floppy disks are such total
junk? They seem to
often develop problems after only one or two writes - whereas back in
the day they were always pretty reliable.
Which OS are you talking about?
In spite of my negative rant, I do occasionally use 3.5" floppies.
Usually floor-sweepings, whatever crappy thing I have laying about
(as it's usually non-critical xfers to old machines, that sort of
thing, not precious legacy disks).
I have few problems, but I do all floppy copying under linux or
freebsd. I wouldn't be surprised if later microsoft OS products
severely compromise floppy code out of disinterest.
I use USB floppy drives, and one refurb HP desktop that runs WinXP
Pro. No idea what drive is in it, but it always works. Can't
recall a media problem on it.