Where and how to buy discs? (fwd)
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IB>> I highly recommend 3.5 floppy disks, because it rules! :)
IB>> By the way, buy Verbatim (teflon),
IB>> since I’m a fan myself! :)). From
this will soon take off the zero track...
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DS> The problem is in the design of most 3.5" drives. If, when
DS> installing a floppy disk in a 5.25" drive, the heads softly fall onto the
DS> surface of the disk, then in the case of 3.5" they literally fall on it. From
DS> this soon leaves a zero track. A sort of composter...
Denis, maybe that's not the case? Just 3.5" floppy disks have a smaller radius with the same density of the magnetic layer. Especially the internal tracks - the density
of information on them approaches the maximum permissible - hence the increased
probability of errors on the last tracks. It is especially not recommended to use
3.5" on Amiga-type computers, where, as you know, the system track is not at
the beginning, but in the _middle_ of your disk - no one guarantees the safety of programs!
With warm greetings, Slava!
... it’s better to eat a fig with butter than to buy yourself an Amiga
VK> IMHO, BASF is a bigger rulez.
The most rulez is polaroid. They probably don’t make things like this anymore. :-(
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VK> Okay, let's formulate the question differently: where and how cheaply
VK> can you buy 5.25" disks for archives, if 3.5" disks are for everyday use
That's the point. At best, you will be able to buy 1.2m
They will soon stop producing them.
W!7h Be$7 W!$he$, FK0.
VM> Denis, maybe that’s not the point?
That’s exactly the point. There is also a proven method of struggle: when installing a disk, it is enough to keep the button pressed and gently release it.
VM> where, as you know, the system track is not at the beginning, but in the
VM> _middle_ of your disk - no one guarantees the safety of programs
VM>!
An interesting point: from the above-described property of 3.5" FDD, the zero track is usually the first to suffer, and not fortieth.
DS> installing a floppy disk in a 5.25" drive, the heads gently lower onto the
DS> surface of the disk, while in the case of a 3.5" they literally fall onto it. From
DS> this will soon take off the zero track. A kind of composter...
├┤i Vyacheslav & Denis !
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VM> Denis, maybe that’s not the case? It's just that 3.5" floppy disks have a smaller radius
at the same
VM> density of the magnetic layer. Especially the internal tracks - the density
of information
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Who told you about the magnetic layer? Floppy disks were not developed by fools...
IMHO you don’t need to use cheap Chinese ones and everything will be fine ok.
W!7h Be$7 W!$he$, FK0.
DS>> when installing a floppy disk in a 5.25" drive, the heads gently lower onto the
DS>> surface of the disk, while in the case of a 3.5" they literally fall onto it. From
DS>> this will soon take off the zero track. A kind of composter...
VM> in the _middle_ of your disk - no one guarantees the safety of programs!
I don’t have a single disk with a dead 40th or 0th
track on my old dead ones. There are a couple with dead tracks for the 76th, and five things with dead tracks for the 78th.
With best wishes, Vladimir.
Wed 26-Aug-98 02:55, Denis Sotchenko (2:5020/1301.7) wrote a letter to Vladimir
Klymus:
DS> The problem is in the design of most 3.5" drives. If when
├┤i Denis & Kirill !
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DS> Removed surgically. Otherwise the result will be the same.
No. It will break. Already tried... Then the heads cling to
the floppy disk and come off when the floppy disk is pulled out.
W!7h Be$7 W!$he$, FK0.
KF> clicks well...
Also the 05th and 11th drives spoil the disks. It’s not for nothing that they didn’t install a magnet in the newer 13’s, and they didn’t install it in the imported ones. Yes, plus even when the drive starts, this magnet creates, simultaneously with the spindle spinning up, an increased power consumption in the pulse, which sometimes leads to
triggering the protection of some blocks, or a computer crash. Disabling the
magnet will only result in positive changes in your work.
Sincerely, Alex from FFC COMPUTERS.
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