[PLUG] floppy disks @#$!!

Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca
Fri Nov 14 18:47:02 UTC 2003


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On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:17:42AM -0800, Carla Schroder wrote:
> Is there some trick to using floppy disks on Linux? Or are floppy disks, 
> in general, just poo? I'm trying to save docs from Open Office on 
> floppy disks, and the darn things fail as often as they work.

I'm not sure any new floppies have been made this decade.  Or if they
are, they're of especially poor quality.  It's amazing, any floppies
I've bought since I was in high school has always left me with the
mystery "It copied, but will I be able to read it?"

Meanwhile, I have old 5.25" 360k and 1.2MB floppies in storage that
worked last time I tried them, and I would guess that they'll probably
still read next time I try them.

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