Floppy Drives - Are they all crap?

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  • willawake
    Super Modulator
    • Nov 2003
    • 8457
    • Greece
    #1

    Floppy Drives - Are they all crap?

    floppy drives kill me. just when i need to make a ghost boot disk or raid drivers disk, takes several new disks before i get a good one. i am not talking about one comp but various?

    is it the drives (i have experience with teac, mitsumi, samsung)
    is it the media (i have used verbatim, sony)

    whaddya think? anybody have a best choice of media or drives. i like the new teac drive with card reader but the floppy part crapped out within a month.
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    • Topcat
      The Boss Stooge
      • Oct 2003
      • 16959
      • United States
      #2
      What's a floppy drive?

      I havent used one in years. When I flash a BIOS, I put the image onto a spare HDD I have and flash from there. I have a LS120 in my system, and dont even know if it works anymore. None of my systems have floppy drives.
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