On Monday 24 Mar 2003 11:49 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 01:38, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Sunday 23 Mar 2003 11:01 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > > > On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 12:09, Dave Laird wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Correction: > > LS-120: non-universal, hardware protect, bootable > > > > Haven't tried it as a total replacement for fdd, though > > > > Anne > > that's good -- I have seen a lot of LEAF users using LS-120, now I > understand why. Some reliability issues, but that's to be expected with > most cheap removable media.
I had a few reliability concerns, but have found that it's well worth buying the cleaner disk - insert it and it runs for a few seconds. Reliability has been no problem since then. I can still read disks in Mandrake that I wrote under NT4, w2k and win98 as much as 5 years ago. Media are not cheap, but if they last that long they become so. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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