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From: 72560.3467@CompuServe.COM (Howard Herman)
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Subject: Re: drive problems
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Date: 10 Apr 91 07:47:05 GMT
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gravillr@prism.cs.orst.edu (GRAVILLE RUSSELL JAMES) writes:

>I have been having problems with my drives.  [description deleted]

Disconnecting the cables, and cleaning all contacts with ordinary alcohol then 
reassembling often will cure sporadic signal probs.

It doesn't take much corrosion on the contacts to interfere with the low level 
voltages.

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Howard Herman
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