I never use floppies anymore. It's a big hassle to worry if they have a virus or a bad sector. I usually upload or email the files I need.
Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/11/05, Gus Wirth wrote: > The National City Adult School where we hold the Installfests could > probably use them. The students keep their work on floppies, and they use > them for testing on the machines they repair. But if you think the floppies > are questionable (bad blocks, read problems) then just chuck them. >From my experiences, I'd consider them categorically questionable. Floppy disks are such a hassle. When I was tutoring, students would always be having problems with them. I tried for a while to run scandisk on them, but eventually I'd just tell them it wasn't worth it. By then, we had every student either using personal USB storage or emailing their files to themselves at the end of the day. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
