[arachne] Re: floppy life

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On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:00:22 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote:


> If the number of faulty floppies went down, that would be proof enough!

>> and log the usage of the floppy disks to determine the average number of
>> reads and writes before failure.

> You would have to allow for the fact that not all tracks are used all
> the time except when formatting or testing the disk. And you would have
> to allow for the fact that writing to each track appears to require
> multiple scans of the track, even more if the written data is verified
> after the write.

 Dos file manager DosDesktop2 has a feature to Freshen floppy disks.  Assume
it moves files from 1 area to another.  It also tests sectors (nice) with a
graphical interface.  See some red sectors throw away disk.

  Cal

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