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From: aslakson@cs.umn.edu (Brian Aslakson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Syquest 45M Removable & *Dust*
Message-ID: <1990Jul17.000503.5860@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 17 Jul 90 00:05:03 GMT
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jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) writes:

>I'd be strongly tempted to get one of the Syquest 45M removables available from
>so many different vendors, but I've got one worry.  My environment has become
>*extremely* dusty.  I don't know if dust has anything to do with it, but I
>ruin about 1 floppy a month.  (First I get errors, then formatting the floppy
>fails right at the end.)  How do the Syquests perform in a dusty environment?
>Should I worry about this?

Just a thought:  If the floppys don't like the dust, what about the head on
the drive?  And all the chips covered with dust trying to put off heat.
Maybe the worry isn't how the drive functions in dust, but how to keep dust
out.

Brian Aslakson
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