Jonathan De Boyne Pollard wrote in a message to Jack Stein:

 JS> I agree that using an IOMEGA zip disk for one big backup file might be
 JS> smart to use FAT, but other than that, and really small disks like a
 JS> floppy, FAT is just not a good filesystem to use. 

 JDBP> I don't know about yours, but *my* floppy discs hold 120MeB.
 JDBP>  Does that still qualify as "really small" ?  (-:

No, thats really large, for a floppy.  Really small is 1.44 and 1.2MeB, that I 
have here:-)

 JDBP> ( And yes, it *would* be nice if IBM were to come out with a
 JDBP> version of OS/2 Warp that allowed one to use HPFS on 120MeB
 JDBP> floppy discs ... ) 

I thought you could do that on those funky zip drives, or whatever they are
called?  

Speaking of drives, is there anyway to fix a HDD controller on a drive?  I
have a Seagate 2 gig drive that lost its controller, whatever that is.  Thats
the first HD failure I've had since around 1985 when my 10 meg "winchester"
drive failed...  I've run all WD drives though, had very good luck with those
suckers.  Had to put my WD 400MeB drive back in that already has 8 years of
24/7 service under it's belt.  The used Seagate that died has to be newer than 
the WD that I had to replace it with, probably has a hell of a lot less hours
on it too.  

                                           Jack 
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