Hi,
Thanks for sharing your experiences.
> > Hong Kong Humidity too high, also low quality FDD drive will damage > the disk, use only PAN--ONIC or TEA-, better than MITSU--
I definitely agree with that ... I've had good luck with Sony drives also.
I think older drives where in general built better and held alignmnet better, also using a head cleaning diskette can help on either very low use or high use drives.
> >Possibly the material coating got oxidized as time goes by. > >All backups are gone forever! > > Use MAXE-- together will anti-humidity jar or box. Also don't store > serious data on floppy, use CD-ROM or DVD-ROM instead.
If you are using DVD-R/CD-R media name brand media is best ... Kodak makes some archival quality media that really good but a bit $$.
I use a good brand media (TDK personally) and make multiple copies at medium burn rates and then do a CRC check on the files afterwards. So far my 5 year old CD-R disks are readable, though I should move the data to DVD now that the disks are reasonable.
Storage is still an issue with CD-R & DVD-R ... temperature & humidity can cause issues with the dye used in these disks.
Regards, Paul
CD-R was not a popular storage media in the '90s, and not financially attainable to
most user. Now, I prefer using the USB flash disk, but no driver for DOS user, I'm sure the sales will boost if manufactures are willing to release technical details of a USB DOS driver.
BAHCL
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