Ade Vickers wrote:
I must admit, I don't have a 3.5" head
cleaner
I've found anything with alcohol in it will work in an emergency - not as good
Beer???
I am _not_ letting you loose near any of my drives...
> Having said about the 5.25" disks - I've
realised that not all is quite
> sweetness & light.... I have lots of DSDD *drives* here, with various
> machines, but almost no DSDD *disks* - most of the disks are DSHD.... and
> they generally simply will not format on a DD drive....
As has been mentioned here may times, the coercivity of the media is
different between the DD and HD disks.
I could never find a 96tpi disk when I needed one :( I quick plea on the
local freecycle list turned up around 100 though, which should keep me going
for a while (used, so I expect there are some duds in there)
I was given 3 carrier bags of bulk-erased RX50 disks. Although they were
intended as 80 cylinder single-sided, I've never had one that won't
format without errors on both sidss...
-tony