On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 06:15:11PM -0800, Randall Shimizu wrote: > 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. ... > 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.
I've had very good luck with them, but I usually keep them in disk storage boxes or ziplock bags. In the latter case I try not to stack things on them. _If_ you can tolerate treating them almost like ultra low capacity hard drives, maybe they aren't so bad. I wonder whether a few of your students had consistently good results with floppies and whether a few others had trouble with USB storage too. All the same, I have to admit you were right telling them it wasn't worth it. The students are probably too variable and the disks a bit too fussy. Thanks Stewart Strait -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
