Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!crdgw1!jupiter!kassover From: kassover@jupiter.crd.ge.com (David Kassover) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: it's the little things that annoy me Message-ID: <6677@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 9 Apr 90 19:54:36 GMT References: <7550@goofy.Apple.COM> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Organization: Aule-Tek, Inc. Lines: 31 In article <7550@goofy.Apple.COM> casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) writes: In article wilmott@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ray Wilmott) writes: On the Mac I've *never* found a file on a floppy to be corrupted; Me either... ...instead I've found *many* times (on seperate Macs) whole *disks* that have become unreadable. How many is *many*? I've been using various Macs ever since they were introduced, which is to say 6 years of heavy use, and I've seen this maybe a dozen times, or about twice a year. In many of those cases, I've been able to read the diskette by trying a second time -- in which case I always copy the data and then throw away the diskette. What kind of diskettes are you using? This may be a factor. Hmmm. Are you perhaps treating your mac disks subtly differently from your other disks? When I was first introduced to Macintosh, it was common for users to put their floppies on top of the external drive (it was a convenient shelf) Eventually, it was discovered that this was why disks went sour so frequently. The corresponding "convenient shelf" for PC users (at that time) was not so close to stray magnetic fields... You'd be surprised at where such stray fields appear. Think carefully before archiving your media.