Need help *fast*

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nikolas Britton [mailto:freebsd at nbritton.org]
> Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 8:43 PM
> To: Ted Mittelstaedt
> Cc: Broder Mizzérable; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Need help *fast*
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> That is not want I meant to imply when I said "junk":
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> I was talking about the mediums tolerance to time or lack there of. Go
> find a batch of 5-10year old 1.44mb diskettes and try to format them and
> then you will under stand what I meant by "junk".

They generally work fine if they were good quality to begin with.  I do find
that the modern floppy disk drives go out of alignment very rapidly and once
that happens they won't format the media without trouble.

I also know that Central Point had to switch suppliers a few times
due to bad floppies.  KAO Infosystems was cheap but had a high failure
rate.  Verbatim was more expensive but generally never had problems.
They ended up having to use Verbatim.

Ted