On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 12:09, Dave Laird wrote: ... > > Your statements about hysteresis are *still* quite timely today. I don't > remember where, but there was a disk warehouse in Los Angeles selling those > floppy disk test kits even as recently as six months ago. Floppy disk drives > are *so* notorious for developing various imperfections in how they track. > That much hasn't seemed to change all that much over the last decade. <sigh> > Perhaps someday they will develop a reliable floppy of some sort, but don't > hold your breath. Hysteresis will always be a factor to contend with. > ...
Indeed. The industry seems to have decided that the floppy is a dead media -- that's fine, as they do suck, but I wish the industry would provide a universal replacement that is bootable, has a hardware write-protect switch on the media, and is reasonably priced. What else would you store usually read-only but occasionally modified configs on? CD-R: Write once and it's gone. CD-RW: Write a few times, but each write needs to be done in a different machine (either that or your secure machine has the CD-writer, in which case it's only software-write-protected). CF: Software write protect. Memory-Stick: non-universal, non-bootable, but does have hardware write-protect. SD: Software write-protect. Zip: Software write-protect. LS-120: non-universal, IIRC software write-protect too. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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