-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2013-09-29 at 07:56 -0400, James Knott wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Those needing to recover old info.
That would have to be fairly old info and, given the poor long term reliability of floppies, possibly unrecoverable. Over the years I have tossed several floppies that had deteriorated so much that not only were they not readable, they couldn't even be formatted.
I tried recovering backups made 10 years before, on 80 floppies, and there was only one error, which the software recovered. The floppies were old, but good quality. However, floppies bought later (dunno the year) failed a lot. Floppies made in the 80's do not fail easily. 80% of floppies made in the 21th century fail on first use. I have used floppies, not very recently, to take documents to some people. Nowdays I would perpahs use usb stick (if they are not disabled at the sites). However, the minimum size I can find for sticks is 8 GB. I can not find a 1GB stick for one use. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlJIIBwACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WcpwCcCktI8tbB2W2FGV7IgYunwTMJ ClEAn35ZI4K2daO/BUh6sb+BRed2hTTA =XR1/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org