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New comment by anjackson in "Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks"

anjackson — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:20:14 +0000

Unfortunately, some USB floppy drives ignore the read-write tab. It's not enforced at the hardware level.

anjackson — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:47:17 +0000

Yes, that's a little odd. If you shorten the search term, the results come up just fine: http://urlsearch.commoncrawl.org/?q=nl.utwente.cs.wwwhome/~h...