1. RE: [OT] another floppy question
- Posted by rforno at tutopia.com
Jun 11, 2003
Igor and Irv:
"hot climate"?
Might be, but apparently this affects only new floppies (see my previous
post on the subject). I live in Buenos Aires: normally cold winters (0 - 15=
=BA Centigrade), but hot and *very* humid summers (30 - 35 =BA and sometime=
s 99%
humidity).
Regards.
----- Original Message -----
From: Igor Kachan <kinz at peterlink.ru>
To: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] another floppy question
>
>
> Hello Irv:
>
> > I dug out a box of about 200 floppy disks today -
> > old stuff I wrote 5-10 years ago, and tried to
> > look thru them.
> >
> > Some - maybe 1 out of 3 - could be read, the others,
> > which I'm sure *used* to have data on them, were
> > unreadable. OK, so maybe data fades away
> > over the years, no great loss.
> > I'll just re-format these disks and use them
> > for something else, right ?
> >
> > Wrong. Barely 1 out of 10 could be formatted
> > using DOS 6.2, Windows 98, or Linux.
> > The rest return errors, usually in track 0.
> >
> > So I'm stuck with a huge pile of unusable disks.
> > Before you say something is wrong with my disk
> > drive, let me point out that
> > I have 3 pc's and 5 floppy drives.
> > Results are the same regardless.
> >
> > I expect stuff in the fridge to go bad after
> > a while, but disks?
> >
> > Irv
>
> Strange ...
>
> These days I burned CD-R with my old stuff from floppies.
>
> 470 - (1.44/3'')- 3 bad, 43 have 1..2 files with bad sectors.
> 138 - (1.2/5'') - all good.
> 80 - (720k/5'')- 3 have 1 file with bad sector.
>
> Maybe, just the hot climate of your land?
>
> Regards,
> Igor Kachan
> kinz at peterlink.ru
>
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2. RE: [OT] another floppy question
- Posted by rforno at tutopia.com
Jun 11, 2003
Pete:
Maybe I did, but don't remember having said so previously. But please see
one of my other posts today.
Regards.
----- Original Message -----
From: Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [OT] another floppy question
>
>
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 20:41:34 +0200, Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de>
> wrote:
>
> >High-quality CDs and DVDs: 100-200 years (estimated).
> >[Source (in German): http://www.monitor.co.at/story.cfm/storyid/4704]
> No way. I can't read German, but that has to be stamped, factory made
> gear, not the home-written stuff, or marketing blurb, not reality..
>
> I've read some bad reviews on CDRs: just a few months, under heavy use
> (especially if you leave a disk in the drive for any length of time),
> and really only several years even when stored in optimal conditions.
>
> I think Ricardo Forno recently had some bad experiences.
>
> Pete
>
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