Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:50:13 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Nikolas Britton" <freebsd@nbritton.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Need help *fast* Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNIENEEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <41D0E45E.80601@nbritton.org>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Nikolas Britton [mailto:freebsd@nbritton.org] > Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 8:43 PM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: Broder Mizzérable; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Need help *fast* > > > > > > > That is not want I meant to imply when I said "junk": > > 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
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