On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, David McBride wrote:
> I am having a lot of I/O errors with my floppys. I have changed the cable
> and drive already. What is a good brand of floppy to work woth the 1680KB
> format?
I tend to use whatever generic brand I come across. If the format fails,
into the trash it goes.
I/O errors can arise if you are attempting to back up to a full disk or
if the disk is mounted when you attempt to back up. I have also
encountered continuing problems with disks that have experienced either of
these mistakes until I re-wrote another image on them (I suppose fsck
might have done just as well, but rewriting the image was easier).
Always keep backups of your floppies. I keep a history of images to refer
to later.
Dust is also a continuing problem for me. Thus comes the attraction of an
old hard disk or a flash disk.
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