About short life expectancy of floppy disks... I'm curious as to how 3 1/2 inch floppies are a lot more short lived than their 5 1/4 inch counterparts... i mean, i've got an old BBC computer using 5 1/4 floppies and i didn't exactly treat them properly (ie leavin them lying around out of their sleeves, and they work fine - and some of them are nearly 16 years old. what went wrong there i wonder?
---------- From: Bruce Johnson Sent: 10 February 2004 16:29 To: PCI PowerMacs Subject: [PCI] Re: Auto-Start WORMs and other viruses AND your digital camera On Feb 9, 2004, at 5:22 PM, Bill Neill wrote: > I AM VERY WORRIED ------ > > 1. I have a Sony digital camera - this one I selected because it > records directly on disks - they came out with a memory stick > attachment that works ok. This is good, because I fear you're going to be relying on that thing... > > 2. I have recently experienced peculiar problems with disks.... > What problems? If they're turning up unreadable, you've run into the major problem with these style cameras: 1)The drives go out of alignment or bad. Not surprising in something that gets jostled around a lot, and the sony FD cameras do have a poor reliability history as far as the drives go. 2)Floppy disks these days are pretty much like writing data to toilet paper. I can't count the number of brand new, brand name floppy disks I've seen bad, out of the box, in the last several years. We're constantly dealing with failed floppies when we deal with our students. We've finally gotten the most of them to start relying on other forms of removeable data storage, like USB memory sticks, instead of floppies, and to a lesser extent, Zip disks. > 3. I have a failed 6500 and just today, a new failed 840 AV, BOTH > have start up problems - one will not at all, the other quits about > the time the first extension loads. How do you mean 'quit'? They shut down? Lock up? what? > > Is this a AUTO - START - UP worm? No, the symptoms do not match: <http://www.icsalabs.com/html/communities/anti virus/macintosh/archives/ macvirus/reference/autostart.html> > > Can this infect the Sony camera? No way. No more so than PC viruses can infect a Mac, or human viruses can infect a pine tree. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-power macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
