Your comments must reflect some extensive experience with these media
and drives.

I've still got several hundred 5 1/4" media in storage -- I can't
imagine that most of it is not unrecoverable. But we'll see.

In the meantime, I've recertified my 3 1/2" media, tossed most of
them, and went and bought a 50-pk of Verbatim. Surprisingly, some of
the old media were still good after ten years. This should solve the
problem for the moment.

Thanks for all your comments.

-- Roy Zider