🚀 go-pugleaf

Lonnie McClure (lmcclure@ibm.net) wrote:
: On Thu, 21 May 1998 16:35:12 +0100 Andrew Smallshaw
: <smallsa7@cs.man.ac.uk> wrote:

: >I also bin my floppies when I've re-written over them two or three
: >times.  

With all you folks having trouble with floppies and tapes being corrupted,
_where_ are you storing them?  I initially format all floppies to make
sure they have _no_ bad sectors, since diskcopy just writes over bad
sectors anyway, and destroy all floppies with bad sectors, and rarely have
any data loss thereafter.  I hesitate to say never, but I can not recall
_any_ instance of lost data due to anything other than cockpit error on my
part. 

We're probably talking about perhaps half a thousand floppies here. 

Are you perchance storing them near your monitor, where the degausing on
power up can also degauss your floppies and tapes? 

All the usual cautions also apply: keep them away from your telephone,
stereo speakers, and anything else with magnets in them or with external
magnetic fields when operated. 

Good luck.

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