2 Aug
2014
2 Aug
'14
10:31 p.m.
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?
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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/