Hi Andy:
My experience, and it's well documented elsewhere -- "floppy" disks of any
size are far from
archival or reliable. I'd make sure ANYTHING of value you have on that
media is backed up elsewhere.
If you've never had a failure until now, you are incredibly lucky.
One man's opinion here -- GOOD RIDDANCE to any of those magnetic in
plastic evil little things! Zips
included!
-- Tom Fine
I would totally agree with Tom on floppy reliability, especially ZIP
disks. Every once in awhile a given 3 1/2 drive would do strange things to
the little metal shutter on a given disk. Too many moving parts.