O > On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 23:12:04 +0100, "H.J.Bathoorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hello all, > > Since mdk8.1 I'm burning floppies like hell. It's not the drive itself, > I tested that, so it's got to be Mandrake. > I know Linux is more demanding on floppy quality, but 2 good floppies > out of 10 is overdoing it :( > Anybody else have similar troubles? > > Harm
As a matter of fact, yes. But, I am convinced that it is the quality of the disks themselves, not the operating system (I have the same problem with Caldera, Suse, RH, Mdk7.2 and mdk 8.0). One box of disks (AT&T) were exactly as you describe--I had 2 disks of 10 that formatted without errors. On the average, I get about one disk a box that is fubar. However, I did get some Sony disks a couple of months ago and had maybe one fail out of 50. I guess the moral of this story is--you get what you pay for. As an aside, I tried a few of the failed disks on Windows, and they failed there, too, after failing the dos format on a Linux box. I know, this is all anecdotal evidence, but it's what happened to me. e. ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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