2 floppy drives?

[mgordon99]

Does anyone have 2 floppy drives on their computer? Just curious, as it seems copying from one floppy to another would be simple as drag and drop. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[Petros]

I used to, but one of them broke. I didn't bother replacing it since I don't really use my floppy drives much anymore. But yes, it was easy to transfer files from one to another.

[howste]

I still have a system with both a 3½" and a 5¼" drive. Does this count? You can guess how often the 5¼" drive gets used.

[KillerBug]

With the excepting of reinstalling windows, I totaly turn off my floppy drives, unplug them too, they slow you down like flypaper does a misquito.

[M1pilot]

Last year I bought an LS120 and stacked it over my 1.44 fdd. Handy for file transfers from one drive to another, but they rarely get used any more.

-M1pilot

[Gomer]

One of my puters still has a 5 1/4 along with the 3 1/2, so I guess that makes two. My mom tried to play a cd with it once and after fishing the cd out of there I was gonna yank it. Never got around to it though.

[Lacy]

mgordon99

I have two floppies on my puter I use just for easier copying when needed for certain files. Otherwise, I use my cd rw.

[Warthog]

I also use a CD-RW for simple file transfer. I hardly ever use a floppy. I have about 50 new flops sitting next to my comp.

hd - Several times, I have used a floppy to transfer docs. Most of the time, it would not open the file off the floppy at all and an error would pop up. I had to do it multiple times.

Warthog

[mgordon99]

I am a college student, so a floppy is still handy for transfering document files back and forth from home to school. A floppy will hold a fair amount of document files.

[hd581]

Hey College Boy, ftp rulez! Either ftp your files to your college account before you leave your dorm, or setup an ftp server on your machine.

Well, I guess I should say that with restraint: Your campus has to be well wired (ie the comps you go to are connected to the net).

Floppies are so unreliable it seems. I always copy files to a floppy multiple times.

[mgordon99]

My campus is the #2 wired in the country, so I guess I had better start making use of ftp huh? http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[Tom Pico]

I've got two 1.44 ffd's for ease of tranfering files from floppy to floppy.
KillerBug -- Does floppy slow rest of system when not in use? Why?

[Eli]

I rarely use my floppy drives either (aren't CD-Rs great?), but I had an extra floating around so I installed it in one of my older computers. I actually used them both once or twice just a couple of weeks ago... lol

[Win_98]

1. I dont see how 2 is more useful then 1 when they are slow like turtle about the speed of serial transfer 20-25Kbytes/sec with horrible seek time of 300ms?
2. Very old technology, been around since 1990.
3. What happen to 2.88? expensive and just as slow eh?
4. Only useful when your computer aint booting up.
Zip drive?
too expensive, doing fine with just using parallel transfer and just as fast.

[Win_98]

Last and not least
it a poor man backup media http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[Eli]

If you need a quick copy of a floppy or are transferring a large number of files through a floppy (which happens on occasion) two drives in one system does have it's advantages. However, it is extremely rare under most circumstances....

[moabtwo]

I don't use floppies either, boot from the CD. I had a LS-120 an 3 1/2 and it does slow down the system...

[Win_98]

We talking from harddrive to floppy
not floppy to floppy, never heard of anyone wanting to duplicate a diskette
this would take forever and was used in the old day when you friend want a copy of your floppy disk but then again one floppy is more then enought for anyone these day.
I dont wanna backup my floppy
a tape backup or cd writer is the way to go.
a zip drive or ls-120
blows away floppy if you're willing to spend
a little more http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[Eli]

I'm sorry, but you've never heard of anyone wanting to duplicate a floppy? Not even for a backup of a game in the old pre-W9x days? And what's the easiest way to transfer a small file to a 486 laptop (or desktop for that matter) that has no CD drive?

[Fingers]

Just last week, I needed to make a copy of a customized Windows 98 startup disk.
Win_98 must think the mid 90's were the "old days". We may be moving away from floppy technology but for now, floppies are still very useful.
I'd rather copy a file onto a reuseable floppy than burn it into a CD.

ps. IMHO, you can probably copy to a floppy faster than you can connect to the internet and send via ftp.

[M1pilot]

I said earlier that my floppy drives rarely get used anymore, and that's true, but it sure does'nt make sense to discard them yet. It makes even less sense to burn a single file or two, or a small program that'll fit on a 1.44, onto a CD for transfer to, say, another machine (especially since not all computers have even cdroms). FTP transfers are fine, but not all machines are connected to the internet. FDD's have a lot of useful life in them yet.

-M1pilot

[Underclocked]

I'm just curious, do you guys put a floppy in your drive, right click and choose copy disc? Takes little more time than having two drives.

[M1pilot]

That works ok if you're in Windows, but what about dos?? I still occasionally work in dos, and it's quicker to have the two floppies if you happen to be transferring from one disk to another. I would'nt go out of my way to put two in though. I had the extra drive after getting my LS-120, and the room, so why not??

-M1pilot

[Eli]

Exactly. "xcopy a: b:" was a lot easier when you had two drives. Plus it saved on the wear on the drive. Loading and ejecting a disk half a million times to copy a single floppy wasn't the best thing for a drive.