Modern floppy disk question...

[Jim Leonard]

Jules Richardson wrote:
> Heh heh, I remember in the mid/late 90's I had a HD floppy (Verbatim I
> think it was) that just would not die. It probably went through a full
> data cycle / format twice a week on average for many years and refused
> to ever throw up a bad block.

It performed well BECAUSE you put it through a format twice a week.  You can 
punch a hole in the other side of a DDSD 720K disk and use it as a DSHD 1.44MB 
floppy 100% reliably *as long as you write to it once a week*.  I did this in 
college to transfer data between friends every day (early 1990s, no networking) 
-- I took the school-issued DSDD disks and burnt a hole on the other side with 
my soldiering iron to make them work as 1.44MB disks.  They were formatted once 
a month and written to at least once a day.

I found a few of them a few years ago and tried to read them -- not a single 
single track was error-free :-)
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