On 21 Apr 2004 at 17:11, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > I have actually had a lot of experience with this. I would never > consider floppies as a save media, too many of them have failed on my.
On PCs, I used to see problems with reliability of floppies until DOS was changed to default to having VERIFY ON by default for writes to floppy disks. This means that you'd never have a write to a bad sector that went undetected at the time of the write. That was DOS 5, I think. Since then, I've seen very few problems with lost data on floppies. Yes, disks sectors would go bad, but you'd hardly ever lose any data, especially if you'd retire any disk with the first bad sector. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
