Re: tapes best for backup?

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

On Jan 6, 2008, at 6:53 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 03:31:45PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>
> > of all those IBM floppies I can only write to 2
>
> Try a few straight reads to /dev/null just to scrape them clean.

After that, use a cleaning disk to clean the heads of the floppy  
drive...

Rick