Re: Good source for "new" 5.25 and 3.5 inch floppy disks?

[winston19842005 <bjjlyates@bellsouth.net>]

On 9/18/07 7:53 AM, in article
zOKdne9oWf62IXLbnZ2dnUVZ_uiknZ2d@giganews.com, "Steven Hirsch"
<snhirsch@gmail.com> wrote:

> winston19842005 wrote:
>> 
>>> WalMart and other office supply stores sell *high density* disks.
>>> Though you can use such disks in a pinch (I'm told), what I'm looking
>>> for is 800k double-density disks.
>> 
>> Well, we Tiers use them all the time in our 720k drives, just tape over the
>> density hole.
> 
> You must enjoy data loss, then.  The heads on low density drives cannot
> generate a field sufficient to fully saturate domains on the media.  Don't bet
> the farm on being able to read those disks back after a few years.

Sorry, you are confusing HD 5.25" with 3.5" HD (here we go again, <sigh>!).
Besides, in my case I AM using an HD 3.5" drive, just in LD mode...

> 
> I'm starting to find that most "low" (DD) density 3.5" diskettes are bad out
> of the box.  Whenever I need to use them with either my Apples or Amigas, I
> end up throwing out 3 of 5 for format/verify errors.  I'd like to think that
> it's bad drives, but I have a pile of them and the bad disks are well and
> truly... bad.

Yes, I did mention quality of new disks was low...