From: John Kim (jokim_at_CHS.CUSD.CLAREMONT.EDU)
Date: Mon Dec 20 1993 - 21:48:59 EST
In message Sun, 19 Dec 93 17:22:05 -0500,
Robert Dewar <dewar_at_schonberg.cs.nyu.edu> writes:
> Anyone know a source of reasonable priced 2.88 meg diskettes (since we all
> have drives that can deal with them). I find that formatting 1.44 meg
> drives to 2.88 meg is really quite unreliable, any other experience?
I've got 6 1.44 meg diskettes (I don't think you can format 1.44 meg drives
as 2.88 meg :) that I've formatted to 2.88 meg and backed up some stuff on.
They're zip files that take nearly all 2.88 meg of space so it's relatively
simple for me to test them. They passed the 1-day test, the 1-week test,
and I'll be pulling them out this week for the 1-month test. But I still
wouldn't trust my data to them (I use them for things like backups of my
original diskettes -- since I've never had an original go bad, I figure the
chances of an original and a backup on 2.88 going bad are remote).
On a related note, I've had problems reading some 1.44 meg diskettes. It
seems to be dependent on the drive used to write the diskettes. One of my
friends' computer can read stuff my 750 writes just fine, but the 750 can't
read anything his drive writes.
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