Broken floppy disks

[Tony Duell]

> 
> Ade Vickers wrote:
> > I must admit, I don't have a 3.5" head cleaner
> 
> I've found anything with alcohol in it will work in an emergency - not as good 

Beer???

I am _not_ letting you loose near any of my drives...
> > Having said about the 5.25" disks - I've realised that not all is quite
> > sweetness & light.... I have lots of DSDD *drives* here, with various
> > machines, but almost no DSDD *disks* - most of the disks are DSHD.... and
> > they generally simply will not format on a DD drive....

As has been mentioned here may times, the coercivity of the media is 
different between the DD and HD disks.

> 
> I could never find a 96tpi disk when I needed one :(  I quick plea on the 
> local freecycle list turned up around 100 though, which should keep me going 
> for a while (used, so I expect there are some duds in there)

I was given 3 carrier bags of bulk-erased RX50 disks. Although they were 
intended as 80 cylinder single-sided, I've never had one that won't 
format without errors on both sidss...

-tony