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Disk rot?
To: Rich
From: Ralph.Hyre@familynet-international.net
I'm backing up some 5.25 disk (mostly from the 1980s), and having a few
problems with I/O errors on about 10% of my disks.
One of the disks is my Apple SCSI Card Utilities. My Apple II system utilities
can read the directory track on DOS 3.3 and ProDOS tracks, but
has issues actually copying the files.
Is it more likely the disk media has given up after 18 years (for the Apple
card), or is it more likely my MicroSci disk drive is starting to fail? The
original Disk ][ from 1981 couldn't read much of anything. I have 26-year old
floppies that are reading just fine, and there's no rhyme or reason to it.
- Ralph
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