Re: How do I format a floppy disc for word?

In <#FzxXRCpFHA.1416@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Charles Kenyon told us an
interesting story. My reply to this story is at the bottom of this
message.

> I'm sure they won't (probably can't) fix it for floppies. Fixing for
> CDs would also be difficult; I think the problem arises because
> writing to a CD is substantially slower than writing to a hard drive.
> Another possible problem is that files written to CDs do not really
> delete, even with CD-RW; the only way to really get rid of them is to
> reformat the disk. I've been told that it is a problem even with
> flash drives; not sure why, but limited size comes to mind.

With flash drives, it's not size that matters ;-)

/Usually/ flash drives don't have this "floppy" problem. However the
flash drives can only be written to a couple tens of thousands times.
(Gargoyle if you want exact numbers)
For normal use this ought to be enough, but we had cutsomers that had a
foxpro database on an usb flash drive. Database = continuous i/o. After
a couple of months or a year or so, we got reports about corrupted
files, which we could only attribute to flash failure.

By the way if we're bragging about hw specs: I only have 1GB RAM, but I
do have 3GHz of 64-bit processing power on my home pc. And an OS that
can make use of all that raw 64-bit horsepower. Groovy!

--
Amedee Van Gasse
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