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From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Head Cleaning Diskettes
Keywords: Pre-saturated vs. kit with solution
Message-ID: <1989Oct27.154015.14081@world.std.com>
Date: 27 Oct 89 15:40:15 GMT
References: <20817@usc.edu> <107@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>
Reply-To: madd@world.UUCP (jim frost)
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Organization: Software Tool & Die
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In article <107@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> press@venice.sedd.trw.com (Barry Press) writes:
|In article <20817@usc.edu> libman@phad.hsc.usc.edu () writes:
|>I'm interested in opinions on using a head cleaning diskette.
|
|I've had several repair techs [...]
|say that the best thing to do with a working floppy is to leave it
|alone - to use head cleaners only when it stops working.  [...]
|the cleaners are fairly abrasive [...]
|for the head.
|
|On the other hand, in some 10 years of using floppy disks on micros, I've 
|yet to find a problem that a head cleaner fixed,

This is true, using a cleaner very often is probably a bad idea.  I,
on the other hand, *have* had a head cleaner correct problems on a
couple of occasions, but the drive was marginal in all of them and
needed to be replaced shortly after.

I, too, recommend not using them unless you are having problems with
the drive, at which time I'd use it as the first attempt at correcting
the problem (at least temporarily).

jim frost
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