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Phred wrote:

> In article <2nn1elF2dlhcU1@uni-berlin.de>, 
> "Jack D. Russell, Sr." <jackru$$ell2@notmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> > hs>To my horror, I found a remarkable hardware failure  rate of
> > hs>floppies, even from large companies like TDK, made (I think )
> > hs>after  the mid 80's. My ancient floppies seems to last forever.
> > hs>But a newer ``preformatted'' floppy can be   readable/writable
> > hs>and then an hour later when I go to a friends house, I find
> > hs>his/her PC can not  read the thing. Later,  on examination I find
> > hs>scandisk  or some lookalike reporting bad clusters, even at the
> > hs>beginning of the floppy  where the boot information is supposed
> > hs>to go: Result most programs can not even read enough to scan it
> > hs>for errors.
> [...]
> 
> Even back in the good old days there were commonly problems moving 
> floppies from system to system.  Many times one had to walk an 
> incoming floppy around the office until finally finding a machine
> that could read it.  (Though in the mid/late 80s I guess this was
> mainly with 5.25" 360K disks around here. :)
> 
> I suspect a lot of the problem was in the tolerances for the 
> read/write heads.  A disk written on a machine at the edge in one 
> direction tended to be unreadable in a machine at the other extreme.
> 
> Presumably, the same sort of problem could arise with pre-formatted 
> disks?
> 
> As for "new" reliability, I typically found about 5 to 10% "bad" out 
> of the box when formatting the things years ago (now talking 3.5" 
> 720K) and haven't really noticed much better or worse with the 
> "modern" pre-formatted 1.44MB units here.
> 
> Cheers, Phred.

The floppy is dead.
Recently i seen a pack of 10 TDK floppys on the shelf for $12, right
next to them was a pack of of 50 TDK CDR's for $35. Do the math 0_o

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DalienX