[vox-tech] advice for floppy disks

Ted Deppner vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Tue, 1 Jan 2002 11:56:14 -0800


On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 11:38:36AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> not for backup.  i need floppies.

buy floppies in large quantities
expect them to fail

I use Imation media at the moment.  fdformat is your friend.

I only use floppies for boot media.  For transport between machines, I use
the net (be it email, rsync, http, scp, nfs, etc).

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Ted Deppner
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