Modern floppy disk question...

[Tom Jennings]

On Wed, 4 May 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:

> Anyone know why modern floppy disks are such total junk? They seem to
> often develop problems after only one or two writes - whereas back in
> the day they were always pretty reliable.

Which OS are you talking about?

In spite of my negative rant, I do occasionally use 3.5" floppies.
Usually floor-sweepings, whatever crappy thing I have laying about
(as it's usually non-critical xfers to old machines, that sort of
thing, not precious legacy disks).

I have few problems, but I do all floppy copying under linux or
freebsd.  I wouldn't be surprised if later microsoft OS products
severely compromise floppy code out of disinterest.

I use USB floppy drives, and one refurb HP desktop that runs WinXP
Pro. No idea what drive is in it, but it always works.  Can't
recall a media problem on it.