Floppy disks

[frl9lk]

Semi related: Is there anything that can reasonably be done to avoid floppies going bad seemingly randomly. I use several different drives, three different machines, and the failure rate is still way high. Is it peculiar to Amigas? (No other system I have ever used has had anywhere near the same problem.) Thanks.

[frl9lk]

I do have a disk cleaner, which I use with Klean (an old utility that simply spins dfX: for a few seconds). The problem is that disks can go bad in the same sitting. And by bad, I mean unformattable. All my Amigas have had problems this way -- and old Mac, PC or ST disks have stayed basically reliable.  I will open up a drive and try the clean and oil. Thanks.

(I've eBayed my way through a bunch of drives, and would like to find an alternative strategy.)

[frl9lk]

I don't use floppies to backup. I have redundant HDs, CDRW, zips(speaking of flakey) and SyQuest. But it's playing Russian Roulette to try to read/install legacy software.