please help floppy

[oilypennys]

could someone please help i am doing a college course and 1 question is asking think of a way you could improve the floppy disk desighn any ideas would be much appreciated THANX.......oily

[sns]

Not sure on how it would be done but they are noisy little things. Mines not too bad when reading but when you push a disk in it always clunks in. Its a positive type sound that lets you know its in but a bit loud late at night. I was working on a friends pc the other night and the floppy drive made a horrid sound whenever I rebooted or tried to use it.
They are such a small size anyway its hard to think of a way to actually make them smaller.
You cant really go for the xtra storage angle either - I think the LS120 covered that and was backwards compatible. I have not got one but I seem to remember they were quiet when a disk is inserted.
Maybe 1 idea would be to get away from the 1.44 plastic disk and maybe just have a device that doesnt actually have to be inserted, just hold a small card or watch with memory close to the front of the case and have the info transmitted to and from. Hmmm sounds like something I heard about with heart rate monitors that sports people wear then download the info later onto the pc - cant use that can you?, its not really a new idea. It would solve dust issues and there are no moving parts.
Oh well thats off the top of my head I may think of something else later.

SORRY Just reread your post, I was thinking of floppy drive, oh well the floppy disk stuff toward end with no moving parts and transmitted still applies.

[This message has been edited by sns (edited 04-27-2001).]

[qball]

An easy one....

Make it hold about 4 gigs of data.

[madfish]

SNS, my LS120 superdisk drive just makes a soft click followed by a hardly noticeable soft hum {about a seconds worth} when a disk is inserted. Cheers!

[oilypennys]

thanx guys on that one.

how about this one?

extra high density drives (ED) are available although not widly so as a replacement for floppy drives. there formatted capacity is 2.44mb using vertical recording explain how else this capacity might be achieved using any means necessary.

sorry guys i hope this one dosnt pickle your heads . in advance thanx.....

[SysOpt]

^ bump ^

[elroy]

A more efficient format that doesn't waste so much space. These disks are 2.0mb when they are blank, 1.44 formatted and I have a utility to make them 1.72mb formatted but still that has a lot of wasted space. How about 1.9mb formatted?

[madfish]

elroy
lol I have one that does that too, but, it if you use it and plan on using the floppy in a 95-98 machine, forget it, it only works for disks used with win 3.1 or earlyer

[muno]

Trash the floppies, rather find a way to completely remove floppy drive in windows environment and give everyone cdrw.
But a way to improve floppys? Think the worst downfall is speed and size, nowadays. Make it hold, say 25mb of data and write it at about 1mb/sec sustained and it'd be good.
-M