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Novell DOS floppies still working (Miscellaneous)

posted by Doug , 07.04.2020, 20:19

> I personally have had LOTS of 3.5" disks go bad,

Me too. Many can not even be re-formatted (and not because of dirty drive heads)! I wonder if it was a quality-control issue (cheap, quick manufacturing) or a technology-related issue (speed, track size, etc).

> and have generally had much better luck with 5.25" disks.

In my experience, yes with 360kb disks, but not with 1.2g disks. (Same issues as above?)

> I still have a computer with 5.25" & 3.5" drives and also have a USB floppy (3.5").

Many of each in my case!

> I've never seen a USB 5.25" drive.

Me either. I wonder if latter versions of DOS stopped supporting 5.25"?

And i've never even *seen* an 8" drive or disk!

- Doug

Complete thread:

• Novell DOS floppies still working - rr, 06.04.2020, 22:37 (Miscellaneous)
  • Novell DOS floppies still working - bretjohn, 07.04.2020, 17:10
    • Novell DOS floppies still working - Doug, 07.04.2020, 20:19
      • Novell DOS floppies still working - RayeR, 08.04.2020, 15:29
      • Novell DOS floppies still working - marcov, 08.04.2020, 17:21
    • Novell DOS floppies still working - rr, 11.04.2020, 22:04
      • Novell DOS floppies still working - rr, 02.05.2020, 23:26