I've seen some possibilities on the old slashdot article. Someone posted the idea of making cd-raid0 backup and this smart person even posted the HOWTO on his page. Maybe you can modify this method to do cd/floppy-raid5, but I personally think making floppy-raid5(or floppy-whatever redundant method by any software) is not worth doing in your case because you need same software to regenerate the dead disk(s) on the remote site. And, by the way, how are you going to carry your regeneration software with you? Same floppy disk that are subject to crap out?
I think it's better to make the image file(s) of the floppy disk(s) and backup the entire sets and imaging program to more reliable and useful media like CD-R(though it's not that reliable, too) or your notebook(it's cumbersome though) before going out so that you'd only have to carry one additional CD (or heavy notebook) and one additional blank floppy to reduce the chance of disaster. Anyway, if you have large piles of the floppy backups already, you should backup these unstable magnetic timebombs(with random timer setup) to other media as soon as possible!
Now that they've moved almost all the functionality into the "software" side, in the future they would just say like
"Just live with that bugg..err.. slightly misfeatured driver. We are not going to fi.. improve that" "You dare to reverse-engineer and disclose the internet usage habit peeping(tm) functionality in the driver? Prepare to meet our lawyers from hell!" "Didn't you click 'I Agree' button in the driver software installation step? Now you may return only hardware portion of our product which consists only 2% of the cost you bought"
Wondering whether this'll gonna be the next generation 'beowolf post'
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I've seen some possibilities on the old slashdot article. Someone posted the idea of making cd-raid0 backup and this smart person even posted the HOWTO on his page. Maybe you can modify this method to do cd/floppy-raid5, but I personally think making floppy-raid5(or floppy-whatever redundant method by any software) is not worth doing in your case because you need same software to regenerate the dead disk(s) on the remote site. And, by the way, how are you going to carry your regeneration software with you? Same floppy disk that are subject to crap out?
I think it's better to make the image file(s) of the floppy disk(s) and backup the entire sets and imaging program to more reliable and useful media like CD-R(though it's not that reliable, too) or your notebook(it's cumbersome though) before going out so that you'd only have to carry one additional CD (or heavy notebook) and one additional blank floppy to reduce the chance of disaster. Anyway, if you have large piles of the floppy backups already, you should backup these unstable magnetic timebombs(with random timer setup) to other media as soon as possible!
Now that they've moved almost all the functionality into the "software" side, in the future they would just say like
"Just live with that bugg..err.. slightly misfeatured driver. We are not going to fi.. improve that"
"You dare to reverse-engineer and disclose the internet usage habit peeping(tm) functionality in the driver? Prepare to meet our lawyers from hell!"
"Didn't you click 'I Agree' button in the driver software installation step? Now you may return only hardware portion of our product which consists only 2% of the cost you bought"
Wondering whether this'll gonna be the next generation 'beowolf post'