On 10 Nov 2006 at 9:49, Phil Daley wrote: > At 11/10/2006 09:33 AM, ThomaStudios wrote: > > >I have experienced the same as Johannes. I have several, out of > >hundreds, of CD-Rs with backup files for clients. I can recall at > >least a half dozen times where I've gone back to retrieve something, > >and the disc wound NOT mount or would not read the files. Damn, > >floppies were more reliable in their day! > >Now, all my backups go > to an external drive and a tape backup. So >far, no failures with > the tapes, knock on wood. > > I had (and have) a lot of floppy problems You can create them and > read them on the same machine, but a different machine says they are > unformatted.
I used to use floppies to carry work to clients and back, and I never had a floppy failure. And this was for disks that were really being churned in terms of being repeatedly written to. Of course, I'd always do a scandisk before copying data to the floppy (so I wouldn't end up arriving at a client with a bad disk), and that would repair any bad sectors or mark them unusable. But I never found floppies to be the least bit unreliable. > I wonder if Macs are less reliable at reading CDs than Windows? On what basis would you wonder such a thing? The OS could not possibly have anyting to do with it -- it's entirely an issue of the media and the hardware that writes to it. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
