24 Aug
2012
24 Aug
'12
10:09 a.m.
On 08/24/2012 10:27 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Yesterday, I thought I'd try again after swearing
off of the things,
as the disks in question were 10-sector rather than soft-sector. I
wondered if 10-sector being rarer than the soft-sector variety might
not be different.
No, my experience of the soft-sector ones was exactly the same, with a
failure rate very near 100%. I got sick of dealing with them and having to
clean drive heads after every single one (and in one memorable case it tore
one of the heads clean out of the drive when it shed its oxide layer). I'm
sure I've complained about them on the list before (and certain Parrot
disks, although those seem to be a bit more of a lottery and don't *always*
cause problems).
cheers
Jules