Yeah, to work around the floppy drive quality issue,
I installed six floppy drives in my system and use
software RAID-5 so that when one of the floppy drives
goes balls up I can simply hot-swap the failed floppy
drive and rebuild the data that were located on the
floppy diskette in the failed floppy drive.
D
* On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 08:33:53PM -0700, William Lindley wrote:
> Back when floppy drives cost $500, they had some semblance of quality.
>
> Now that they're $11 at Fry's (that's $5 before markup, $1 before shipping
> from Japan, and $.13 of materials) they are almost without fail ... prone
> to fail.
>
> You might try using brand-new formatted disks. Be sure if you put a
> floppy into a Windows box that you write-protect it, since Windows writes
> on a disk even if you only do a directory! (It's updating the "Last
> Access Time." Rah.) Thus merely reading a disk on someone else's machine
> with a misaligned drive can trash the disk.
>
> \\/
> http://www.wlindley.com
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