Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!jli From: JLI@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: 3.5" Disk "Notcher" wanted Message-ID: <9245@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Date: 21 Aug 89 07:03:07 GMT References: <111700136@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <1810@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services Lines: 23 In article , nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes: > In article <1810@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> sac90286@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kubla Khan) writes: > > Take your ... drill ..., and drill yourself a nice clean hole. > > Little bits of plastic would make my floppies unhappy. > You should be an experienced user of drills. I have been using drills to get nice clean holes on 3.5" floppies without any (almost) little bits of plastic. Frankly, I do get some small bits, but if you can clean them up, your floppies will be happy. By the way, does anyone encounter data loss problem using this kind of modified 1.44 MB floppies? I have had some such problems even though I was using high quality DSDD diskettes (I have tried some generic 720K floppies, and failure rate was too high). There is a company selling a disk hole-puncture tool, using which you can get a nice hole on 3.5" disk (I don't remember its name, you can find it on Computer Shopper). I haven't been drilling holes for quite a while, not because that I am getting rich but that I don't want my valuable data getting lost. Good luck to you all. --- A former 3.5" disk hole-driller