2 May
1999
2 May
'99
3:36 a.m.
Another pass through the bulk-erase procedure should do it. I've had lots
of diskettes and tapes which were rejuvenated by a serious bulk-erase.
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles E. Fox <foxvideo(a)wincom.net>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Sunday, May 02, 1999 5:30 AM
Subject: Re: Fun with degaussers
At 07:18 PM 5/1/1999 -0700, you wrote:
At 09:50 PM 5/1/99 -0400, Tim wrote:
Yesterday one of our local industries was selling off some equipment to
benefit Jr Acheivment, so I went down, found a 5 1/4" disk file with a
bunch of disks, and was told I could have it for $ 2.00. The lady on the
desk, however was determined no data could leave. I came home, returned
with a bulk tape eraser and demagnitized them on the spot.
However when I tried to format them with my trusty XT it spit them out as
"can't read track 0" on both A and B drives. I formatted the disks
successfully on a Compaq clone and a Commodore PC10, and now the XT will
read them. Any ideas?
Regards
Charlie Fox
Charles E. Fox
Chas E. Fox Video Productions
793 Argyle Rd. Windsor N8Y 3J8 Ont. Canada
email foxvideo(a)wincom.net Homepage http://www.wincom.net/foxvideo
That said, 12 (or even 6) is way too many errors
for a floppy disk.
Cleaning the heads, re-aligning, or buying new media (there are lots
of places that still sell 8" floppies) may be the real solution.
The issue isn't with the disk I don't believe (I don't have an alignment
disk to prove it so I can't be sure). The goal of demagnetizing is to
recreate a uniform state of non-magnetism on the media.