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floppies suck!!
I've had to many problems with floppies being corrupted and losing valuable data all the time...
Why can't they KILL floppies along with there drives and replace them with standard 2-5mb memory cards or something like that.
i know the Sony Laptops now have the memory stick drive... but every pc needs to to start doing that
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Evil Lurks
One word : PRICE.
Floopies are CHEAP.
But even they will dissappear in this decade
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers
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Theyre a pin in the bum for the reasons you mention - why i burn most of my stuff to CDRW or make multiple copies of floppies or nowadays send it across the net/lan beforehand
--Jakk
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I think that USB devices will pretty much exterminate floppies. Those nifty thumb drives are coming way down in price now. Portability and megabytes, less chance of corruption and will work on any PC with an OS '98 or above. You also don't need to buy any extra devices or software to access it. That's why I've asked my other half to get me one for christmas... I'm sick of spanning stuff across floppies!
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Member
Floppies suck ...no doubt about it, the zip drive is cats *** for moving small files around and the external usb makes it all the better...mine is internal, right below the floppy, and I also have a couple that plug into the printer port, one is scsi and the other is not...but both serve very well.
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Guest
The quality of floppys and floppy drives has gone down hill rather steadily in the past 10 years. Hopefully the usb sticks and zips will replace them soon. Just have to make the BIOS recognize them as bootable drives.
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"Just have to make the BIOS recognize them as bootable drives."
Hehe. Already done. I boot off my ZIP all the time. Right there in my P4t-e bios, boot of external zip drive.
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Member
Yeah but I wanna boot from a USB memory key. If they ever do get around to doing this I wonder how long it will take before someone sticks a small linux distro on one
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Member
Actually booting from a USB memory device or Sony memory stick probably won't be far off if Open BIOS gets half a chance.
http://www.freiburg.linux.de/OpenBIO.../openbios.html
I can see some people out there making a patch for it or even having it included as a feature in OpenBIOS.
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Gone Fishin'
For file transfere with USB I use a 128mb smartmedia card. Reader is small and the transfer very fast. I also use it in my camera and can take pictures all day long with one card.
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Just had my first zip disk go "sour" on me, first one in 2-3 years or since I got my drives. It just spins and makes a click noise and then it errors...its my cadd back-up files but I got other back-up so
its no big deal.
Just thought I would throw that in.
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Member
Ah yes, you suffered from the Zip Drive "click of death" problem. You can diagnose if that is going to happen here:
http://grc.com/tip/clickdeath.htm
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Originally posted by kimike
Just had my first zip disk go "sour" on me, first one in 2-3 years or since I got my drives. It just spins and makes a click noise and then it errors...its my cadd back-up files but I got other back-up so
its no big deal.
Just thought I would throw that in.
Well send it back! ALL mine are life time warrenty. So its a free $10.00 replacment.
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Gone Fishin'
Originally posted by $1500-P4 gamer
Well send it back! ALL mine are life time warrenty. So its a free $10.00 replacment.
Yeah, unless you find out there is a postage and handling fee.
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