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From: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Looking for 2 programs
Message-ID: <3059@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 91 14:24:39 GMT
References: <1991Jan15.153009.476@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson)
Organization: Iron City, USA
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In article <1991Jan15.153009.476@spool.cs.wisc.edu> tonyrich@titanic.cs.wisc.edu (Anthony Rich) writes:
|2.  I was trying valiantly to start the year off right by cleaning my
|    floppy drive with a good ol' Radio Shack cleaning diskette.  But the
|    Mac ejects it as an unreadable disk almost immediately, so it doesn't
|    get the recommended 30 seconds of "play" time that it needs to clean
|    the drive head.  Is there a utility program (or some technique) that
|    will allow the heads to engage and seek around on a head-cleaning
|    diskette for a little while?

The Verbatim cleaning disk I used a couple years ago mentioned this in the
instructions, suggesting that one simply keep re-inserting it repeatedly 
until it had been spinning for about 30 seconds total.

chaz

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Someone please release me from this trance.
clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu                                       AOL:Crowbone