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In article <7550@goofy.Apple.COM> casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) writes:
  In article <Apr.1.20.23.56.1990.19753@topaz.rutgers.edu> 
  wilmott@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ray Wilmott) writes:
     On the Mac I've *never* found a file on a floppy to be
     corrupted;
  
  Me either...
  
     ...instead I've found *many* times (on seperate Macs) whole
     *disks* that have become unreadable.
  
  How many is *many*?  I've been using various Macs ever since they were 
  introduced, which is to say 6 years of heavy use, and I've seen this maybe 
  a dozen times, or about twice a year.  In many of those cases, I've been 
  able to read the diskette by trying a second time -- in which case I 
  always copy the data and then throw away the diskette.
  
  What kind of diskettes are you using?  This may be a factor.
  
Hmmm.  Are you perhaps treating your mac disks subtly differently
from your other disks?

When I was first introduced to Macintosh, it was common for users
to put their floppies on top of the external drive (it was a
convenient shelf)  Eventually, it was discovered that this was
why disks went sour so frequently.  The corresponding "convenient
shelf" for PC users (at that time) was not so close to stray
magnetic fields...

You'd be surprised at where such stray fields appear.  Think
carefully before archiving your media.