3.5" DSDD disks mostly bad

Jim Leonard trixter at oldskool.org
Sat Jul 22 03:49:06 CDT 2006


David Griffith wrote:
> If anyone wants 3.5" DSDD disks from me, I'm all out.  That lot that I
> posted about last week is mostly bad judging from the sixty I've gone
> through so far.  With 200 to go, I'll just chuck this mess out unless
> someone here wants to do something silly like make a suit of armour out of
> floppies.  If that's the case, I'll sell the whole lot for the cost of
> shipping.

How does an entire lot go bad?  Are you seeing an exorbitant amount of 
bad sectors after a format?
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