Timeline for Do DD floppy disks need regular full reformats?
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| Jan 15, 2018 at 16:04 | comment | added | TripeHound | Another situation where a "refresh format" (full) might plausibly help is if a floppy has been passed around many different machines... as this superb answer about track layouts discusses, the "guard gaps" depend on (the spin speed of) the writing machine, so a floppy written to by many machines is more likely to have a track that another machine might not be able to read reliably. | |
| Jan 15, 2018 at 13:42 | comment | added | TripeHound | Frequent rewrites – especially of several sectors at a time – would, I think, tend to effectively "refresh" the underlying track. It's conceivable that a disk that's only ever read might benefit from an occasional refresh process (copy data/format/replace data), since there would be no refreshing from writes. | |
| Jan 15, 2018 at 13:05 | vote | accept | neverMind9 | ||
| Jan 15, 2018 at 13:00 | comment | added | tofro | Fading of sector markers does occur. But I wouldn't expect reading or writing sectors would in any way influence this. This is caused by normal "aging" of the magnetized areas over time. | |
| Jan 15, 2018 at 12:53 | answer | added | Spektre | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 15, 2018 at 12:41 | answer | added | Chenmunka♦ | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 15, 2018 at 12:20 | history | asked | neverMind9 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |