18215MES@MSU.BITNET (10/10/90)
I think that the problem lies in the low cost (read: low quality control) floppies, not necessarily Apples drives. I have had floppies that would not format on an IBM work fine in a MAC. I would also suspect that SONY floppies (or other highly reliable company's) would not have such a high failure rate. Has anyone had any problems with SONY floppies? Mark Sartor (18215mes@msu.bitnet)
rick@jessica.stanford.edu (Rick Wong) (10/12/90)
In article <65918215MES@MSU> 18215MES@MSU.BITNET writes: >Has anyone had any problems with SONY floppies? > >Mark Sartor (18215mes@msu.bitnet) In the past four months, I've had three HD floppies fail with bad sectors. These are Sony floppies that I use for daily backups on two different machines. This seems like an unreasonably high failure rate in comparison with 800K floppies. With my usage patterns, I've experienced roughly only one failure per year with them -- that's an order of magnitude difference! Rick Wong rick@jessica.stanford.edu